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title: In a corner of the eagle's nest sat the young eaglet, a large and po… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In a corner of the eagle's nest sat the young eaglet, a large and powerful bird, though still unable to fly. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 43

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In a corner of the eagle's nest sat the young eaglet, a large and powerful bird, though still unable to fly.

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**What happens:** sit, fly · **To what, where:** young eaglet, corner

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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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:58:43
# text = In a corner of the eagle's nest sat the young eaglet, a large and powerful bird, though still unable to fly.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	eaglet	eaglet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  | the young eaglet and a large bird |  | a corner of the eagle's nest |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent eaglet=Theme in corner=Location |
| 2 | **fly** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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