The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 176

Then the eagle pounced upon the bird, and the moment she seized him in her talons she tore the ring from his neck before the man in bird’s shape had time to prevent her.

Who acts: eagle, moment, man · What happens: pounce, seize, tore, have, prevent · To what, where: air, talons, ring, neck, eagle

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle, moment, man), 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	4 pounced	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eagle	det
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pounced	nsubj
4	pounced	pounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 bird	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pounced	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tore	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tore	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 moment	det
11	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tore	nsubj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seized	nsubj
13	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 moment	acl:relcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seized	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 talons	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 talons	nmod:poss
17	talons	talon	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 seized	obl
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tore	nsubj
19	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pounced	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ring	det
21	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tore	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 neck	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 neck	nmod:poss
24	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tore	obl
25	before	before	SCONJ	_	32 had	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 man	det
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 had	nsubj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 shape	case
29	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 shape	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 bird	case
31	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 man	nmod
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 tore	advcl
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 had	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 prevent	mark
35	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 time	acl
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 prevent	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pounced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pounce	past	the eagle			then	upon the bird	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon bird=Trajectory
2	seize	past	eagle	air	eagle's talons			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	tore	past	the moment	the ring	air's neck			tree rules
4	have	past	the man in bird's shape			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	prevent	to-infinitive	the man in bird's shape not said here	eagle				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer she=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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