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title: At this moment a huge Eagle flew into the room, holding in its talon… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At this moment a huge Eagle flew into the room, holding in its talons a Golden Branch, upon which were growing what looked like clusters of cherries, only every cherry was a single glowing ruby. Who acts: huge Eagle, cherry. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 70

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At this moment a huge Eagle flew into the room, holding in its talons a Golden Branch, upon which were growing what looked like clusters of cherries, only every cherry was a single glowing ruby.

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**Who acts:** huge Eagle, cherry · **What happens:** fly, hold, grow, look, glow, be · **To what, where:** room, Golden Branch, talons, single glowing ruby

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huge Eagle, cherry), 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:pg540:34:70
# text = At this moment a huge Eagle flew into the room, holding in its talons a Golden Branch, upon which were growing what looked like clusters of cherries, only every cherry was a single glowing ruby.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	talons	talon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	nsubj	_	_
25	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	clusters	cluster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	cherries	cherry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
31	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	cherry	cherry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	amod	_	_
38	ruby	ruby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | a huge Eagle |  |  |  | moment | into the room *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into room=Result |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | a huge Eagle *not said here* | a Golden Branch |  | Eagle's talons |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent branch=Theme in talon=Location |
| 3 | **grow** | past · progressive | a huge Eagle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | like clusters of cherries | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | past | every cherry | a single glowing ruby |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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