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title: Down flew the Eagle from the oak, smote upon the ground, turned into… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Down flew the Eagle from the oak, smote upon the ground, turned into a brave youth, and cried aloud: A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 87

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Down flew the Eagle from the oak, smote upon the ground, turned into a brave youth, and cried aloud:

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**What happens:** fly, smote, turn, cry · **To what, where:** Eagle, oak, ground, brave youth

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg540:7:87
# text = Down flew the Eagle from the oak, smote upon the ground, turned into a brave youth, and cried aloud:
1	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	smote	smote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past |  | the Eagle |  | the oak |  | down *property* | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme from oak=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **smote** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | upon the ground | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn** | participle |  | the ground *not said here* |  | a brave youth |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into youth=Trajectory |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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