Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 25
Two guns were ready to aim at the dark body of the eagle as it rose from the nest.
Who acts: Two guns, gun · What happens: be, aim, rise · To what, where: dark body, nest
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 (Two guns, gun), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 guns | nummod |
| 2 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | cop |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 aim | mark |
| 6 | aim | aim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ready | xcomp |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 body | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 body | det |
| 9 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 body | amod |
| 10 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 aim | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 eagle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 eagle | det |
| 13 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 body | nmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 rose | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rose | nsubj |
| 16 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 aim | advcl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 nest | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 nest | det |
| 19 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rose | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Two guns | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | aim | to-infinitive | Two guns not said here | the dark body of the eagle | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | rise | past | gun | the nest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from nest=Initial_Location |
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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