The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 92

Presently the eagles came flying in, and changed themselves into young men, and in a moment the Princess recognised her husband amongst them all, and tried to come out of her hiding-place; but the old man held her back.

Who acts: eagles, Princess, old man · What happens: come, fly in, change, recognise, try, come out · To what, where: orders, husband, hiding place, Princess

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, Princess, old 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eagles	det
3	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 came	xcomp
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 flying	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 changed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 changed	cc
9	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 changed	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 men	case
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 men	amod
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 changed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 recognised	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 recognised	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 moment	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 moment	det
18	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 recognised	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Princess	det
20	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 recognised	nsubj
21	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 husband	nmod:poss
23	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 recognised	obj
24	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 recognised	obl
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 them	nmod:unmarked
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 tried	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 tried	cc
29	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 come	mark
31	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 tried	xcomp
32	out	out	ADP	_	37 place	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	37 place	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 place	nmod:poss
35	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 place	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 hiding	punct
37	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 come	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 held	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 held	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 man	det
41	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 man	amod
42	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 held	nsubj
43	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
44	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 held	obj
45	back	back	ADV	_	43 held	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the eagles			presently property	tree rules
2	fly in	gerund	the eagles not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	change	past	the eagles not said here	orders = order		into young men result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient into man=Result
4	recognise	past	the Princess	Princess's husband	moment	amongst orders = order	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus
5	try	past	the eagles not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	come out not said to happen	to-infinitive	the eagles not said here	Princess's hiding place			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient place=Result
7	hold back	past	the old man	Princess			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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