Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 71

[*] The white dove of innocence fluttered over the altar.

What happens: flutter · To what, where: white dove, altar

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. 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.

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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 *	punct
2	*	*	PUNCT	_	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	6 dove	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dove	det
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dove	amod
6	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 *	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 innocence	case
8	innocence	innocence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dove	nmod
9	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 dove	acl
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 altar	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 altar	det
12	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fluttered	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 *	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flutter	participle		the white dove of innocence not said here		the altar			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over altar=Location

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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