Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 47

Then flinging the sling over his shoulder, so that the creature hung a good way down behind him, he prepared to descend with the help of a rope, and his foot soon touched safely the highest step of the ladder.

Who acts: creature, Rudy, foot · What happens: fling, hang, prepare, descend, touch, help · To what, where: sling, shoulder, good way, highest step, rope, ladder

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 (creature, Rudy, foot), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 flinging	advmod
2	flinging	fling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 hung	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sling	det
4	sling	sling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flinging	obj
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 shoulder	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 shoulder	nmod:poss
7	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flinging	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hung	punct
9	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 hung	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 so	fixed
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 creature	det
12	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hung	nsubj
13	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 way	det
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 way	amod
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hung	obj
17	down	down	ADV	_	13 hung	advmod
18	behind	behind	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hung	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 prepared	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 prepared	nsubj
22	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hung	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 descend	mark
24	descend	descend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 prepared	xcomp
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 help	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 help	det
27	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 descend	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 rope	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 rope	det
30	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 help	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 touched	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 touched	cc
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 foot	nmod:poss
34	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 touched	nsubj
35	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 touched	advmod
36	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hung	conj
37	safely	safely	ADV	_	36 touched	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 step	det
39	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	40 step	amod
40	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 touched	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 ladder	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 ladder	det
43	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 step	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fling	gerund	the creature not said here	the sling	Rudy's shoulder	then		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sling=Theme over shoulder=Destination
2	hang	past	the creature	a good way			behind Rudy; down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme behind he=Destination
3	prepare	past	Rudy					vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
4	descend not said to happen	to-infinitive	Rudy not said here				with the help of a rope	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	touch	past	Rudy's foot	the highest step of the ladder			safely, soon property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	help			a rope				nom help «act transitive»: of=patient
7	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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