Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 39
Only by using his hands and climbing could he possibly reach it.
Who acts: climbing · What happens: use, reach · To what, where: hands, 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 (climbing), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 using | advmod |
| 2 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 3 using | mark |
| 3 | using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hands | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 using | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 reach | cc |
| 7 | climbing | climbing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reach | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 reach | aux |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reach | nsubj |
| 10 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 11 reach | advmod |
| 11 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 using | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reach | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 using | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | gerund | Rudy's hands | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||||
| 2 | reach | could | climbing | nest | possibly property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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