The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 177

Then the eagle flew down to the earth with her prey, and the two stood face to face once more in human form.

Who acts: eagle, two · What happens: fly down, stand · To what, where: face, human form

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, two), 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 flew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eagle	det
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 flew	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 earth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 earth	det
8	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 prey	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 prey	nmod:poss
11	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 earth	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stood	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stood	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 two	det
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 stood	nsubj
16	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
17	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stood	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 face	case
19	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stood	obl
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 more	advmod
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 stood	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 form	case
23	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 form	amod
24	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stood	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly down	past	the eagle				then	to the earth with eagle's prey result; down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to earth=Result
2	stand	past	the two	face		human form		to face	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Theme in form=Destination

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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