Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 15
So at midnight they set out, carrying with them poles, ladders, and ropes.
Who acts: spirits · What happens: set out, carry · To what, where: poles
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirits), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 set | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 midnight | case |
| 3 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 set | nsubj |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 set | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 carrying | punct |
| 8 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 set | advcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 carrying | obl |
| 11 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 carrying | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ladders | punct |
| 13 | ladders | ladder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 poles | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ropes | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ropes | cc |
| 16 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 poles | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | spirits = spirit | midnight | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | gerund | spirits = spirit not said here | poles and ladders and ropes | with spirits = spirit | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pole=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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