The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 51
Then he drew out the claws of the eagle’s feet that had remained in his flesh, and put the peel of one of the golden apples on the wound, and in one moment it was healed and well again.
Who acts: bird · What happens: draw out, remain, put, heal · To what, where: claws, feet, flesh, peel
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 drew | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 claws | det |
| 6 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drew | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 feet | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 eagle | det |
| 9 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feet | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 eagle | case |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 claws | nmod |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 remained | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 remained | aux |
| 14 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 feet | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 flesh | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 17 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 remained | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 put | cc |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 drew | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 peel | det |
| 22 | peel | peel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 one | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 peel | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 apples | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 apples | det |
| 27 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 apples | amod |
| 28 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 one | nmod |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 wound | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 wound | det |
| 31 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 apples | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 healed | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 healed | cc |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 moment | case |
| 35 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 moment | nummod |
| 36 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 healed | obl |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 healed | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 healed | aux:pass |
| 39 | healed | heal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 drew | conj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 again | cc |
| 41 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 42 again | advmod |
| 42 | again | again | ADV | _ | 39 healed | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw out | past | bird | the claws of the eagle's feet | then | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Theme | |||
| 2 | remain | past · perfect · passive | the eagle's feet | bird's flesh | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | bird not said here | the peel of one of the golden apples on the wound | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent peel=Goal | ||||
| 4 | heal | past · passive | peel | moment | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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