Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 20
Not far from Bex, in the canton Valais, was an eagle's nest, more curiously built under a high, over-hanging rock.
What happens: be, build · To what, where: nest, high over-hanging rock
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. 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.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 nest | advmod |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Bex | case |
| 4 | Bex | Bex | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 far | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 canton | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 canton | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 canton | det |
| 8 | canton | canton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Bex | appos |
| 9 | Valais | Valais | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 canton | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 far | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 nest | cop |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 eagle | det |
| 13 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nest | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 eagle | case |
| 15 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 built | punct |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 curiously | advmod |
| 18 | curiously | curiously | ADV | _ | 19 built | advmod |
| 19 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 nest | acl:relcl |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 rock | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 rock | det |
| 22 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 rock | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 high | punct |
| 24 | over-hanging | over-hanging | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 rock | amod |
| 25 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 built | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 nest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a eagle's nest | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | build | participle | a eagle's nest not said here | a high over-hanging rock | curiously property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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