Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 37
He did not observe Vertigo, who stood in the air behind him, trying to lay hold of him with his outstretched polypous arms.
Who acts: Rudy, Vertigo · What happens: not observe, stand, try, lay, hold · To what, where: Vertigo, air, hold, Rudy
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 (Rudy, Vertigo), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 observe | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 observe | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 observe | advmod |
| 4 | observe | observe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Vertigo | Vertigo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 observe | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Vertigo | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stood | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 trying | punct |
| 15 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 stood | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 lay | mark |
| 17 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 trying | xcomp |
| 18 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hold | nmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 arms | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 arms | nmod:poss |
| 23 | outstretched | outstretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 arms | amod |
| 24 | polypous | polypous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 arms | amod |
| 25 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lay | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 observe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not observe | past · do-support | Rudy | Vertigo | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent vertigo=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | Vertigo | the air | behind Rudy | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location | |||
| 3 | try | gerund | Vertigo not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | lay not said to happen | to-infinitive | Vertigo not said here | hold of Rudy | with Rudy's outstretched polypous arms | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result | |||
| 5 | hold | Rudy | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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