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title: The eagles flew to the basin of a fountain that was there and bathed… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The eagles flew to the basin of a fountain that was there and bathed themselves, when suddenly they were changed into twelve handsome youths. Who acts: eagles, fountain. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 77

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The eagles flew to the basin of a fountain that was there and bathed themselves, when suddenly they were changed into twelve handsome youths.

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**Who acts:** eagles, fountain · **What happens:** fly, be, bath, change · **To what, where:** fountains, twelve handsome youths

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagles, fountain), 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:pg640:7:77
# text = The eagles flew to the basin of a fountain that was there and bathed themselves, when suddenly they were changed into twelve handsome youths.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	eagles	eagle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	bathed	bath	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
18	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | the eagles |  |  |  |  | to the basin of a fountain *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to basin=Result |
| 2 | **is** | past | a fountain |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bath** | past | the eagles *not said here* | fountains *= fountain* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **change** | past · passive |  | fountains *= fountain* |  |  |  | into twelve handsome youths *result*; suddenly *property* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into youth=Result |

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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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