The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 58
But as the eagle had lost its feet it died, and its body was found in a wood on the Glass Mountain.
Who acts: eagle · What happens: lose, die, find · To what, where: eagle, body, wood
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), 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 | _ | 10 died | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 lost | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 eagle | det |
| 4 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lost | aux |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 died | advcl |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 feet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lost | obj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 died | nsubj |
| 10 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 body | nmod:poss |
| 14 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 found | aux:pass |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 died | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 wood | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 wood | det |
| 19 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 Mountain | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Mountain | det |
| 22 | Glass | Glass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Mountain | compound |
| 23 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 wood | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · perfect · passive | the eagle | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | die | past | eagle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | find | past · passive | eagle's body | a wood on the Glass Mountain | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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