English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 83

They had to wait then for a long time for the eagle to make his appearance, when at last he came all in a perspiration, after sending two little birds high up in the sky to whistle on him to make all the haste he possibly could.

Who acts: fowls, King · What happens: have, wait, make, come, send, whistle · To what, where: appearance, last, two little birds, sky, haste

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fowls, King), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 wait	mark
4	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 wait	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 time	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wait	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 eagle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 eagle	det
12	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 time	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wait	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 appearance	nmod:poss
16	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 came	advmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 last	case
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 came	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
23	all	all	ADV	_	26 perspiration	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 perspiration	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 perspiration	det
26	perspiration	perspiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sending	punct
28	after	after	SCONJ	_	29 sending	mark
29	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 came	advcl
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 birds	nummod
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 birds	amod
32	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sending	obj
33	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 up	advmod
34	up	up	ADV	_	32 birds	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 sky	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sky	det
37	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sending	obl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 whistle	mark
39	whistle	whistle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 sending	advcl
40	on	on	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 whistle	obl
42	to	to	PART	_	43 make	mark
43	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 whistle	advcl
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 haste	det:predet
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 haste	det
46	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 make	obj
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 could	nsubj
48	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	49 could	advmod
49	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 haste	acl:relcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	fowls = fowl					tree rules
2	wait	to-infinitive	fowls = fowl not said here			then; time		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make	to-infinitive	fowls = fowl not said here	eagle's appearance				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset appearance=Product
4	come	past	King		last		in a perspiration	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
5	send	gerund	King not said here	two little birds	the sky			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bird=Theme in sky=Destination
6	whistle	to-infinitive	King not said here				on King	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location
7	make	to-infinitive	King not said here	all haste				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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