Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 43
In a corner of the eagle's nest sat the young eaglet, a large and powerful bird, though still unable to fly.
What happens: sit, fly · To what, where: young eaglet, corner
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 corner | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 corner | det |
| 3 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sat | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 nest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eagle | det |
| 6 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nest | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 eagle | case |
| 8 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 corner | nmod |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 eaglet | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eaglet | amod |
| 12 | eaglet | eaglet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sat | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bird | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bird | det |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bird | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 powerful | cc |
| 17 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 large | conj |
| 18 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eaglet | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 unable | punct |
| 20 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 22 unable | mark |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 unable | advmod |
| 22 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sat | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 fly | mark |
| 24 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 unable | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the young eaglet and a large bird | a corner of the eagle's nest | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent eaglet=Theme in corner=Location | ||||
| 2 | fly | to-infinitive | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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