Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 115

She can there read how the old phoenix set fire to his own nest, and sat upon it while it was burning, like a Hindoo widow.

Who acts: flogging, old phoenix, world · What happens: read, set, sit, burn · To what, where: fire, world

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flogging, old phoenix, world), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:8910): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 read	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 read	aux
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 read	advmod
4	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 set	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 phoenix	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 phoenix	amod
8	phoenix	phoenix	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 set	nsubj
9	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 read	ccomp
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 set	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 nest	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 nest	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 nest	amod
14	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 set	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sat	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sat	cc
17	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 set	conj
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sat	obl
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 burning	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 burning	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 burning	aux
23	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 sat	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 widow	punct
25	like	like	ADP	_	28 widow	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 widow	det
27	Hindoo	Hindoo	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 widow	amod
28	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sat	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	read	can	flogging		there		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	set	past	the old phoenix	fire		to phoenix's own nest	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result
3	sit	past	the old phoenix not said here		world	like a Hindoo widow	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon it=Location
4	burn	past · progressive	world				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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