Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 28

Then the hunters roused themselves: three of the longest ladders were brought and bound together; the topmost ring of these ladders would just reach the edge of the rock which hung over the abyss, but no farther.

Who acts: hunters, topmost ring, rock · What happens: rouse, bring, bind, reach, hang · To what, where: hunters, three, edge, abyss

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 (hunters, topmost ring, rock), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 roused	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hunters	det
3	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 roused	nsubj
4	roused	rouse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 roused	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 brought	punct
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 brought	nsubj:pass
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 ladders	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ladders	det
10	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 ladders	amod
11	ladders	ladder	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 brought	obl
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 brought	aux:pass
13	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 roused	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bound	cc
15	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 brought	conj
16	together	together	ADV	_	15 bound	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 reach	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ring	det
19	topmost	topmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ring	amod
20	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reach	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 ladders	case
22	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 ladders	det
23	ladders	ladder	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ring	nmod
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 reach	aux
25	just	just	ADV	_	26 reach	advmod
26	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 roused	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 edge	det
28	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reach	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 rock	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 rock	det
31	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 edge	nmod
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 hung	nsubj
33	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 rock	acl:relcl
34	over	over	ADP	_	36 abyss	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 abyss	det
36	abyss	abyss	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hung	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 farther	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 farther	cc
39	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	40 farther	det
40	farther	far	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 roused	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 roused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rouse	past	the hunters	hunters = hunter		then		vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
2	bring	past · passive		three			of the longest ladders	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme of ladder=Initial_Location
3	bind	participle					together property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	reach	would	the topmost ring of this ladders	the edge of the rock				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent edge=Theme
5	hang	past	the rock		the abyss			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over abyss=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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