--- title: After consulting together, they determined to bind together two more… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: After consulting together, they determined to bind together two more ladders, and to hoist them over the cavity, and so form a communication with the three beneath them, by binding the upper ones to the lower. Who acts: sides. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/58/30/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [VII. the Eagle's Nest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/58/) / 30 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 30 After consulting together, they determined to bind together two more ladders, and to hoist them over the cavity, and so form a communication with the three beneath them, by binding the upper ones to the lower. **Who acts:** sides · **What happens:** consult, determine, bind, hoist, form · **To what, where:** two more ladders, sides, cavity, communication, upper ones 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 (sides), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:58:30 # text = After consulting together, they determined to bind together two more ladders, and to hoist them over the cavity, and so form a communication with the three beneath them, by binding the upper ones to the lower. 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 consulting consult VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 3 together together ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 determined determine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 bind bind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 together together ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 11 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ _ 12 ladders ladder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 hoist hoist VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 over over ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 cavity cavity NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 form form VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 communication communication NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 obl _ _ 30 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 by by SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 34 binding bind VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 upper upper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **consult** | gerund | sides *= side* *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **determine** | past | sides *= side* | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **bind** | to-infinitive | sides *= side* *not said here* | two more ladders | | | | together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladder=Patient | | 4 | **hoist** | to-infinitive | sides *= side* *not said here* | sides *= side* | | the cavity | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme over cavity=Destination | | 5 | **form** | infinitive | sides *= side* *not said here* | a communication | | | | with the three beneath sides | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location communication=Theme | | 6 | **bind** | gerund | sides *= side* *not said here* | the upper ones | | | | to the lower | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent one=Patient to low=Co-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. - ← previous: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/58/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/58/31/) - ↑ back to [VII. the Eagle's Nest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/58/)