Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 35

The fifth ladder, that appeared to reach the nest, was supported by the sides of the rock, yet it swung to and fro, and flapped about like a slender reed, and as if it had been bound by fishing lines.

Who acts: fifth ladder, sides, nest, fishing lines · What happens: appear, reach, support, swing, fro, flap · To what, where: 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 (fifth ladder, sides, nest, fishing lines), 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	3 ladder	det
2	fifth	fifth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ladder	amod
3	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appeared	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 appeared	punct
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 appeared	nsubj
6	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 reach	mark
8	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 appeared	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 nest	det
10	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reach	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 supported	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 supported	aux:pass
13	supported	support	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 appeared	advcl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 sides	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sides	det
16	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 supported	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 rock	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rock	det
19	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sides	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 swung	punct
21	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	23 swung	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 swung	nsubj
23	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 appeared	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	23 swung	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fro	cc
26	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 swung	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 flapped	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 flapped	cc
29	flapped	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 appeared	conj
30	about	about	ADV	_	29 flapped	advmod
31	like	like	ADP	_	34 reed	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 reed	det
33	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 reed	amod
34	reed	reed	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flapped	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 bound	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 bound	cc
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 bound	mark
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 bound	mark
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 bound	nsubj:pass
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 bound	aux
41	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 bound	aux:pass
42	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 flapped	conj
43	by	by	ADP	_	45 lines	case
44	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 lines	compound
45	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 bound	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the fifth ladder			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	reach	to-infinitive	the fifth ladder not said here	the nest		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent nest=Theme
3	support	past · passive	the sides of the rock			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	swing	past	nest			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	fro	infinitive	nest not said here			tree rules
6	flap	past	the fifth ladder not said here		like a slender reed; about property	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	bind a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive	fishing lines	nest		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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