Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 29
The point beneath which the eagle's nest lay sheltered was much higher, and the sides of the rock were as smooth as a wall.
Who acts: nest, point, sides · What happens: lie, shelter, be
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 (nest, point, sides), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 point | det |
| 2 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 higher | nsubj |
| 3 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 4 which | case |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lay | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eagle | det |
| 6 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nest | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 eagle | case |
| 8 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 9 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 point | acl:relcl |
| 10 | sheltered | shelter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 lay | xcomp |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 higher | cop |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 higher | advmod |
| 13 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 smooth | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 smooth | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sides | det |
| 17 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 smooth | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 rock | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rock | det |
| 20 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sides | nmod |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 smooth | cop |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 smooth | advmod |
| 23 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 higher | conj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 wall | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 wall | det |
| 26 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 smooth | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 higher | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the eagle's nest | beneath the point | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shelter | participle | the eagle's nest not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the point | high property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the sides of the rock | as a wall; smooth property | tree rules |
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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