Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 44
Rudy fixed his eyes upon it, held on by one hand with all his strength, and with the other threw a noose round the young eagle.
Who acts: Rudy, other · What happens: fix, hold on, throw · To what, where: eyes, noose
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, other), 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 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fixed | nsubj |
| 2 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fixed | obj |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fixed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 held | punct |
| 8 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fixed | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 held | compound:prt |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 hand | nummod |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 held | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 strength | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 strength | det:predet |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 strength | nmod:poss |
| 16 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hand | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 threw | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 threw | cc |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 other | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 other | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 threw | nsubj |
| 22 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fixed | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 noose | det |
| 24 | noose | noose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 threw | obj |
| 25 | round | round | ADP | _ | 28 eagle | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 eagle | det |
| 27 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 eagle | amod |
| 28 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 threw | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past | Rudy | Rudy's eyes | upon nest | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 2 | hold on | participle | Rudy not said here | by one hand with Rudy's strength | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by hand=Location | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | the other | a noose | round the young eagle | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noose=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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