--- title: Then the eagle flew with him quite as high as the big clouds, and sh… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the eagle flew with him quite as high as the big clouds, and shook him off, and down he fell headlong till he was about two fathoms from the ground, when the bird again flew beneath him and held him up. Who acts: eagle, man, bird. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Eg --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/44/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [The Magic Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/) / 44 # Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 44 Then the eagle flew with him quite as high as the big clouds, and shook him off, and down he fell headlong till he was about two fathoms from the ground, when the bird again flew beneath him and held him up. **Who acts:** eagle, man, bird · **What happens:** fly, shake off, fall, be, hold up · **To what, where:** man, two fathoms, ground This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle, man, bird), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29672:24:44 # text = Then the eagle flew with him quite as high as the big clouds, and shook him off, and down he fell headlong till he was about two fathoms from the ground, when the bird again flew beneath him and held him up. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 quite quite ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 as as ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 clouds cloud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 off off ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 down down ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 headlong headlong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 till till SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 about about ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 fathoms fathom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 when when SCONJ WRB _ 39 mark _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 38 again again ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 parataxis _ _ 40 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 44 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 up up ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | past | the eagle | | | | then | with man | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **shake off** | past | the eagle *not said here* | man | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 3 | **fall** | past | man | | | | | down, headlong *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | past | man | two fathoms | | the ground | | | tree rules | | 5 | **fly** | past | the bird | | | | again | beneath man | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent beneath he=Location | | 6 | **hold up** | past | the bird *not said here* | man | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/45/) - ↑ back to [The Magic Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/)