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title: The lindworm had often watched the eagle flying about the top of the… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The lindworm had often watched the eagle flying about the top of the tree, carrying food to his young ones and, accordingly, he watched carefully for the moment when the eaglets began to try their wings and to fly away from the nest. Who acts: eagle, lindworm, eaglets. A sentence of «The Crimson Fai
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 2

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The lindworm had often watched the eagle flying about the top of the tree, carrying food to his young ones and, accordingly, he watched carefully for the moment when the eaglets began to try their wings and to fly away from the nest.

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**Who acts:** eagle, lindworm, eaglets · **What happens:** watch, fly, carry, begin, try, fly away · **To what, where:** lindworm, food, young ones, wings, nest

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle, lindworm, eaglets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:10:2
# text = The lindworm had often watched the eagle flying about the top of the tree, carrying food to his young ones and, accordingly, he watched carefully for the moment when the eaglets began to try their wings and to fly away from the nest.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lindworm	lindworm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
17	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	eaglets	eaglet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
43	away	away	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past · perfect · passive |  | the lindworm |  |  |  | often *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme eagle=Attribute |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund | the eagle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the top of the tree | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about top=Location |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | the eagle *not said here* | food | lindworm's young ones |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme to one=Destination |
| 4 | **watch** | past | lindworm |  |  |  | moment | carefully *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **begin** | past | the eaglets |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **try** | to-infinitive | the eaglets *not said here* | eaglets's wings |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Eventuality |
| 7 | **fly away** | to-infinitive | the eaglets *not said here* |  |  | the nest |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from nest=Trajectory |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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