Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 30

After consulting together, they determined to bind together two more ladders, and to hoist them over the cavity, and so form a communication with the three beneath them, by binding the upper ones to the lower.

Who acts: sides · What happens: consult, determine, bind, hoist, form · To what, where: two more ladders, sides, cavity, communication, upper ones

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 (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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 consulting	mark
2	consulting	consult	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 determined	advcl
3	together	together	ADV	_	2 consulting	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 consulting	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 determined	nsubj
6	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 bind	mark
8	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 determined	xcomp
9	together	together	ADV	_	8 bind	advmod
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 ladders	nummod
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 ladders	amod
12	ladders	ladder	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bind	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hoist	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hoist	cc
15	to	to	PART	_	16 hoist	mark
16	hoist	hoist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 bind	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hoist	obj
18	over	over	ADP	_	20 cavity	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cavity	det
20	cavity	cavity	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hoist	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 form	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 form	cc
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 form	advmod
24	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 determined	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 communication	det
26	communication	communication	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 form	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 three	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 three	det
29	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 form	obl
30	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 three	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 binding	punct
33	by	by	SCONJ	_	34 binding	mark
34	binding	bind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 determined	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ones	det
36	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 ones	amod
37	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 binding	obj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 lower	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 lower	det
40	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 binding	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	consult	gerund	sides = side not said here			together property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	determine	past	sides = side				vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bind	to-infinitive	sides = side not said here	two more ladders		together property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladder=Patient
4	hoist	to-infinitive	sides = side not said here	sides = side	the cavity		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme over cavity=Destination
5	form	infinitive	sides = side not said here	a communication		with the three beneath sides	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location communication=Theme
6	bind	gerund	sides = side not said here	the upper ones		to the lower	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent one=Patient to low=Co-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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