The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 44

But he was awake now, and perceiving the eagle, he determined by its help to save himself.

Who acts: bird, eagle · What happens: be, perceive, determine, save, help · To what, where: eagle, bird

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 (bird, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 awake	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 awake	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 awake	cop
4	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 awake	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 determined	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 determined	cc
8	perceiving	perceive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 determined	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 eagle	det
10	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 perceiving	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 perceiving	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 determined	nsubj
13	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 awake	conj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 help	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 help	nmod:poss
16	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 determined	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 save	mark
18	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 determined	advcl
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 save	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 awake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	bird		now	awake property	tree rules
2	perceive	gerund	bird not said here	the eagle			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer eagle=Stimulus
3	determine	past	bird			by eagle's help	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	save	to-infinitive	bird not said here	bird			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
5	help		eagle				nom help «act 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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