The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 17

All the other knights gazed in astonishment, for he had almost gained the summit, and in another moment he would have reached the apple-tree; but of a sudden a huge eagle rose up and spread its mighty wings, hitting as it did so the knight’s horse in the eye.

Who acts: other knights, neighbourhood, sudden huge eagle, eagle · What happens: gaze, gain, reach, rise up, spread, hit · To what, where: summit, apple tree, mighty wings, horse, eye

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other knights, neighbourhood, sudden huge eagle, eagle), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 knights	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 knights	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knights	amod
4	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gazed	nsubj
5	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 astonishment	case
7	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gazed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gained	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 gained	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gained	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gained	aux
12	almost	almost	ADV	_	13 gained	advmod
13	gained	gain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 gazed	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 summit	det
15	summit	summit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gained	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 reached	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 reached	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 moment	case
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 moment	det
20	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 reached	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 reached	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 reached	aux
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 reached	aux
24	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 gained	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tree	det
26	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tree	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 apple	punct
28	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 reached	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 rose	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 rose	cc
31	of	of	ADP	_	36 eagle	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 eagle	det
33	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 eagle	amod
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 eagle	det
35	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 eagle	amod
36	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 rose	nsubj
37	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gazed	conj
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 rose	compound:prt
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 spread	cc
40	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 rose	conj
41	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 wings	nmod:poss
42	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 wings	amod
43	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 spread	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 hitting	punct
45	hitting	hit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 spread	advcl
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 did	mark
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 did	nsubj
48	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 hitting	ccomp
49	so	so	ADV	_	53 horse	advmod
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 knight	det
51	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 horse	nmod:poss
52	’s	's	PART	_	51 knight	case
53	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 did	obj
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 eye	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 eye	det
56	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 horse	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gazed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gaze	past	all other knights				in astonishment	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in astonishment=Theme
2	gain	past · perfect	neighbourhood	the summit			almost property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summit=Theme
3	reach	would · perfect	neighbourhood	the apple tree		moment		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
4	rise up	past	a sudden huge eagle					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	spread	past	a sudden huge eagle not said here	eagle's mighty wings				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
6	hit	gerund	a sudden huge eagle not said here					tree rules
7	do	past	eagle	the knight's horse	the eye			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality

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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