Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 27
But it was not so; the eagle sunk gradually into the abyss beneath, and the branches of trees and bushes were broken by its weight.
Who acts: bird, weight · What happens: not be, break · To what, where: branches
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 (bird, weight), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 so | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 so | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 so | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 so | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 sunk | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sunk | det |
| 8 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sunk | compound |
| 9 | sunk | sunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 so | appos |
| 10 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 13 abyss | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 abyss | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 abyss | det |
| 13 | abyss | abyss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sunk | nmod |
| 14 | beneath | beneath | ADV | _ | 9 sunk | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 broken | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 broken | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 branches | det |
| 18 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 broken | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 trees | case |
| 20 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 branches | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bushes | cc |
| 22 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 branches | conj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 broken | aux:pass |
| 24 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sunk | parataxis |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 weight | case |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 weight | nmod:poss |
| 27 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 broken | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sunk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | bird | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break | past · passive | bird's weight | the branches of trees and bushes | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=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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