--- title: Now, an eagle with a King’s heart in his breast is apt to be bold, a… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Now, an eagle with a King’s heart in his breast is apt to be bold, and accordingly he instantly made up his mind to carry off the lovely damsel, feeling sure that having once seen her he could not live without her. Who acts: eagle. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle), 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:pg640:20:1 # text = Now, an eagle with a King’s heart in his breast is apt to be bold, and accordingly he instantly made up his mind to carry off the lovely damsel, feeling sure that having once seen her he could not live without her. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’s 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 breast breast NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 apt apt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 cop _ _ 17 bold bold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 accordingly accordingly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 instantly instantly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 29 off off ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 damsel damsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 35 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 aux _ _ 38 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 39 advmod _ _ 39 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 35 ccomp _ _ 40 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 42 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 44 advmod _ _ 44 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 ccomp _ _ 45 without without ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a eagle with a King's heart in eagle's breast | | | | now | apt *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | a eagle with a King's heart in eagle's breast *not said here* | | | | | bold *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **make up** | past | eagle | eagle's mind | | | | accordingly, instantly *property* | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | | 4 | **carry off** | to-infinitive | eagle *not said here* | the lovely damsel | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damsel=Theme | | 5 | **feel** | gerund | eagle *not said here* | | | | | sure *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **see** | gerund · perfect | eagle *not said here* | her *= she* | | | | once *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **live** | could | eagle | | | | | without her *= she* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **mind** | | eagle | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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: [How Six Men Travelled Throug…, 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/19/101/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/2/) - ↑ back to [How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/)