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The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 2

He waited till he saw her in the act of stepping ashore, when, suddenly swooping down, he carried her off before her equerry in attendance had advanced to offer her his hand.

Who acts: eagle, act · What happens: wait, see, step, swoop down, carry off, advance · To what, where: her, act, hand

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle, act), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

nsubjmarknsubjccompobjcasedetoblmarkacladvmodpunctadvmodpunctadvmodadvclcompound:prtpunctnsubjparataxisobjcompound:prtcasenmod:possoblcasenmodauxconjmarkxcompobjnmod:possobjpunctrootHePRONwaitedVERBtillSCONJhePRONsawVERBherPRONinADPtheDETactNOUNofSCONJsteppingVERBashoreADV,PUNCTwhenADV,PUNCTsuddenlyADVswoopingVERBdownADP,PUNCThePRONcarriedVERBherPRONoffADPbeforeADPherPRONequerryNOUNinADPattendanceNOUNhadAUXadvancedVERBtoPARTofferVERBherPRONhisPRONhandNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 waitednsubj
2waitedwaitVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3tilltillSCONJ_5 sawmark
4hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 sawnsubj
5sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 waitedccomp
6hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 sawobj
7ininADP_9 actcase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 actdet
9actactNOUNNumber=Sing5 sawobl
10ofofSCONJ_11 steppingmark
11steppingstepVERBVerbForm=Ger9 actacl
12ashoreashoreADV_11 steppingadvmod
13,,PUNCT_14 whenpunct
14whenwhenADVPronType=Int2 waitedadvmod
15,,PUNCT_17 swoopingpunct
16suddenlysuddenlyADV_17 swoopingadvmod
17swoopingswoopVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part2 waitedadvcl
18downdownADP_17 swoopingcompound:prt
19,,PUNCT_21 carriedpunct
20hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 carriednsubj
21carriedcarryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 waitedparataxis
22hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 carriedobj
23offoffADP_21 carriedcompound:prt
24beforebeforeADP_26 equerrycase
25herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 equerrynmod:poss
26equerryequerryNOUNNumber=Sing30 advancedobl
27ininADP_28 attendancecase
28attendanceattendanceNOUNNumber=Sing26 equerrynmod
29hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 advancedaux
30advancedadvanceVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part21 carriedconj
31totoPART_32 offermark
32offerofferVERBVerbForm=Inf30 advancedxcomp
33hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 offerobj
34hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs35 handnmod:poss
35handhandNOUNNumber=Sing32 offerobj
36..PUNCT_2 waitedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1waitpasteagletree rules
2seepasteagleher = shethe actvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3stepgerundthe act not said hereashore propertyvn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4swoop downgerundeagle not said heresuddenly propertytree rules
5carry offpasteagleher = shevn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6advancepast · perfecteagle not said herebefore her equerry in attendancevn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7offerto-infinitiveeagle not said hereeagle's handher = shevn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal hand=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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