Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 46
Rudy tightened it, and thus secured the bird alive.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: tighten, secure · To what, where: string, bird
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 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tightened | nsubj |
| 2 | tightened | tighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tightened | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 secured | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 secured | cc |
| 6 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 secured | advmod |
| 7 | secured | secure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tightened | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bird | det |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 secured | obj |
| 10 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 secured | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tighten | past | Rudy | string | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | secure | past | Rudy not said here | the bird | alive, thus property | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition bird=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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