Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 21

In this nest was a young eagle; but who would venture to take it?

Who acts: young eagle · What happens: be, venture, take · To what, where: young eagle, nest, eagle

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: who acts (young 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 nest	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 nest	det
3	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eagle	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 eagle	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 eagle	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eagle	amod
7	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 venture	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 venture	cc
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 venture	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 venture	aux
12	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 eagle	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 take	mark
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 venture	xcomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 take	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 eagle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past		a young eagle	this nest	tree rules
2	venture	would	a young eagle			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	to-infinitive	a young eagle not said here	eagle		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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: «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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