The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 4

At length, when he thought they had reached a safe distance, he began to lower his flight, and gradually descending to earth, deposited his burden in a flowery meadow.

Who acts: eagle, shrieks · What happens: think, reach, begin, lower, descend, deposit · To what, where: length, safe distance, flight, earth, burden, flowery meadow · Speech: someone speaks here

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, shrieks), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thought	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 thought	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thought	nsubj
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 reached	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 reached	aux
9	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 thought	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 distance	det
11	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 distance	amod
12	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reached	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 lower	mark
17	lower	lower	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 flight	nmod:poss
19	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lower	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 descending	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 descending	cc
22	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	23 descending	advmod
23	descending	descend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 began	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 earth	case
25	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 descending	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 deposited	punct
27	deposited	deposit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 burden	nmod:poss
29	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 deposited	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 meadow	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 meadow	det
32	flowery	flowery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 meadow	amod
33	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 deposited	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	eagle		length		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	reach	past · perfect	shrieks = shriek	a safe distance			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent distance=Theme
3	begin	past	eagle				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	lower	to-infinitive	eagle not said here	eagle's flight			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme
5	descend	gerund	eagle not said here		earth	gradually property	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to earth=Location
6	deposit	past	eagle not said here	eagle's burden	a flowery meadow		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent burden=Theme in meadow=Destination
7	burden		eagle				nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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