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title: But he never returned to the earth, for only the mighty eagle, who h… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But he never returned to the earth, for only the mighty eagle, who had been the guardian of the Princess and of the castle, could have carried on his wings the enormous treasure down to the world. Who acts: youth, mighty eagle, guardian. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glas
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 57

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But he never returned to the earth, for only the mighty eagle, who had been the guardian of the Princess and of the castle, could have carried on his wings the enormous treasure down to the world.

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**Who acts:** youth, mighty eagle, guardian · **What happens:** not return, be, carry · **To what, where:** guardian, enormous treasure, wings

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (youth, mighty eagle, guardian), 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:pg640:22:57
# text = But he never returned to the earth, for only the mighty eagle, who had been the guardian of the Princess and of the castle, could have carried on his wings the enormous treasure down to the world.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	guardian	guardian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux	_	_
30	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
37	down	down	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **return** | past | youth |  |  |  |  | to the earth *result*; for the mighty eagle | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to earth=Result |
| 2 | **is a** | past · perfect | the mighty eagle | the guardian |  |  |  | of the Princess and the castle | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry** | could · perfect | the guardian *not said here* | the enormous treasure |  | youth's wings |  | to the world; down *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to world=Destination |

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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 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.

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