Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 22
Rudy sat motionless, as if he had been part of the stone on which he sat. He held his gun ready to fire, with his eyes fixed steadily on the highest point of the cliff, where the eagle's nest lay concealed beneath the overhanging rock.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: sit, be, hold, fix, conceal, overhang · To what, where: part, gun, eyes, highest point, nest, overhanging rock
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 (Rudy), 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 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | motionless | motionless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sat | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 part | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 part | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 part | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 part | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 part | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 part | cop |
| 10 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 stone | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stone | det |
| 13 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 part | nmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 held | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 held | nsubj |
| 17 | sat. | Saturday | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 16 he | conj |
| 18 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 held | nsubj |
| 19 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 part | parataxis |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 gun | nmod:poss |
| 21 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 held | obj |
| 22 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 held | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 fire | mark |
| 24 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ready | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 eyes | punct |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 eyes | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 28 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 held | obl |
| 29 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 eyes | acl |
| 30 | steadily | steadily | ADV | _ | 29 fixed | advmod |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 point | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 point | det |
| 33 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 point | amod |
| 34 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fixed | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 cliff | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 cliff | det |
| 37 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 point | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 concealed | punct |
| 39 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 45 concealed | advmod |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 eagle | det |
| 41 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 nest | nmod:poss |
| 42 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 41 eagle | case |
| 43 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 concealed | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 concealed | aux:pass |
| 45 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 cliff | acl:relcl |
| 46 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 49 rock | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 rock | det |
| 48 | overhanging | overhang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 49 rock | amod |
| 49 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 concealed | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Rudy | motionless property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Rudy | part | of the stone | tree rules | |||
| 3 | hold | past | Rudy | Rudy's gun | part | with Rudy's eyes; ready property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gun=Theme on which=Location | ||
| 4 | fix | participle | Rudy's eyes not said here | the highest point of the cliff | steadily property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||
| 5 | conceal | past · passive | the eagle's nest | the overhanging rock | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient beneath rock=Location | ||||
| 6 | overhang | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | point | the cliff | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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