Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 24

The eagle could not be taken; it would be folly to attempt it."

Who acts: eagle · What happens: not take, be, attempt · To what, where: 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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eagle	det
2	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	nsubj:pass
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 taken	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 taken	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 taken	aux:pass
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 folly	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 folly	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 folly	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 folly	cop
11	folly	folly	ADV	_	6 taken	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 attempt	mark
13	attempt	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 folly	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 attempt	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 taken	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not take	could · passive		the eagle		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination
2	is	would	eagle		folly property	tree rules
3	attempt	to-infinitive	eagle not said here	eagle		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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