---
title: The fifth ladder, that appeared to reach the nest, was supported by… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The fifth ladder, that appeared to reach the nest, was supported by the sides of the rock, yet it swung to and fro, and flapped about like a slender reed, and as if it had been bound by fishing lines. Who acts: fifth ladder, sides, nest, fishing lines. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian An
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/58/35/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 35

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 35

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The fifth ladder, that appeared to reach the nest, was supported by the sides of the rock, yet it swung to and fro, and flapped about like a slender reed, and as if it had been bound by fishing lines.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** fifth ladder, sides, nest, fishing lines · **What happens:** appear, reach, support, swing, fro, flap · **To what, where:** nest

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (fifth ladder, sides, nest, fishing lines), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:58:35
# text = The fifth ladder, that appeared to reach the nest, was supported by the sides of the rock, yet it swung to and fro, and flapped about like a slender reed, and as if it had been bound by fishing lines.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	supported	support	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	swung	swing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	fro	fro	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	flapped	flap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
30	about	about	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	like	like	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	reed	reed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
37	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
38	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	_
43	by	by	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | the fifth ladder |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **reach** | to-infinitive | the fifth ladder *not said here* | the nest |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent nest=Theme |
| 3 | **support** | past · passive | the sides of the rock |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **swing** | past | nest |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **fro** | infinitive | nest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **flap** | past | the fifth ladder *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a slender reed; about *property* | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **bind** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive | fishing lines | nest |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/58/34/)
- next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/58/36/)
- ↑ back to [VII. the Eagle's Nest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/58/)