The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 45

The eagle dug its sharp claws into the tender flesh of the youth, but he bore the pain without a sound, and seized the bird’s two feet with his hands.

Who acts: eagle, bird · What happens: dig, bear, seize · To what, where: sharp claws, pain, two feet

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 (eagle, bird), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eagle	det
2	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dug	nsubj
3	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 claws	nmod:poss
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 claws	amod
6	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dug	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 flesh	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 flesh	det
9	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flesh	amod
10	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dug	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 youth	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 youth	det
13	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flesh	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bore	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 bore	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bore	nsubj
17	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dug	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pain	det
19	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bore	obj
20	without	without	ADP	_	22 sound	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sound	det
22	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bore	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seized	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 seized	cc
25	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dug	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bird	det
27	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 feet	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 bird	case
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 feet	nummod
30	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 seized	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 hands	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 hands	nmod:poss
33	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 seized	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dug	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dig	past	the eagle	eagle's sharp claws	into the tender flesh of the youth	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent claw=Instrument into flesh=Patient
2	bear	past	bird	the pain	without a sound	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient
3	seize	past	the eagle not said here	the bird's two feet	with bird's hands	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=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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