The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 77

The eagles flew to the basin of a fountain that was there and bathed themselves, when suddenly they were changed into twelve handsome youths.

Who acts: eagles, fountain · What happens: fly, be, bath, change · To what, where: fountains, twelve handsome youths

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagles, fountain), 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 eagles	det
2	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 basin	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 basin	det
6	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 fountain	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fountain	det
9	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 basin	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 there	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 there	cop
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 fountain	acl:relcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bathed	cc
14	bathed	bath	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 bathed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 changed	punct
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 changed	mark
18	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	21 changed	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 changed	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 changed	aux:pass
21	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 bathed	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	25 youths	case
23	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 youths	nummod
24	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 youths	amod
25	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 changed	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the eagles		to the basin of a fountain result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to basin=Result
2	is	past	a fountain		there property	tree rules
3	bath	past	the eagles not said here	fountains = fountain		tree rules
4	change	past · passive		fountains = fountain	into twelve handsome youths result; suddenly property	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into youth=Result

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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