Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 38

When at length he stood on the topmost step of the ladder, he found that he was still some distance below the nest, and not even able to see into it.

Who acts: Rudy · What happens: stand, find, be, see, step · To what, where: length, distance, nest, ladder · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 stood	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 length	case
3	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stood	nsubj
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 found	advcl
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 step	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 step	det
8	topmost	topmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 step	amod
9	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 ladder	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ladder	det
12	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 step	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 found	nsubj
15	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 distance	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 distance	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 distance	cop
19	still	still	ADV	_	21 distance	advmod
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 distance	det
21	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 found	ccomp
22	below	below	ADP	_	24 nest	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 nest	det
24	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 distance	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 able	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 able	cc
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 able	advmod
28	even	even	ADV	_	29 able	advmod
29	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 found	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 see	mark
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 able	xcomp
32	into	into	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 see	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Rudy		length		on the topmost step of the ladder	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at length=Location
2	find	past	Rudy					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	Rudy	some distance	the nest	still		tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	Rudy not said here		nest			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	step			the ladder				nom step «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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