--- title: He waited till he saw her in the act of stepping ashore, when, sudde… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He waited till he saw her in the act of stepping ashore, when, suddenly swooping down, he carried her off before her equerry in attendance had advanced to offer her his hand. Who acts: eagle, act. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, par --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/2/) [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/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/) / 2 # The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 2 He waited till he saw her in the act of stepping ashore, when, suddenly swooping down, he carried her off before her equerry in attendance had advanced to offer her his hand. **Who acts:** eagle, act · **What happens:** wait, see, step, swoop down, carry off, advance · **To what, where:** her, act, hand This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle, act), 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:pg640:20:2 # text = He waited till he saw her in the act of stepping ashore, when, suddenly swooping down, he carried her off before her equerry in attendance had advanced to offer her his hand. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 till till SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 act act NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 of of SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 stepping step VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 12 ashore ashore ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 swooping swoop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 18 down down ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 22 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 off off ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 24 before before ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 equerry equerry NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 attendance attendance NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 advanced advance VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 offer offer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | past | eagle | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | past | eagle | her *= she* | | the act | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 3 | **step** | gerund | the act *not said here* | | | | | ashore *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **swoop down** | gerund | eagle *not said here* | | | | | suddenly *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **carry off** | past | eagle | her *= she* | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 6 | **advance** | past · perfect | eagle *not said here* | | | | before her equerry in attendance | | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **offer** | to-infinitive | eagle *not said here* | eagle's hand | her *= she* | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal hand=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:** «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: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/3/) - ↑ back to [How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/)