Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Phoenix Bird, sentence 11

He wings his way in the glimmer of the Northern Lights over the plains of Lapland, and hops among the yellow flowers in the short Greenland summer.

Who acts: Northern Lights · What happens: hop, glimmer · To what, where: yellow flowers

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Phoenix Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Northern Lights), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wings	nsubj
2	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 way	nmod:poss
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wings	nmod:unmarked
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 glimmer	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 glimmer	det
7	glimmer	glimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 way	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 Lights	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Lights	det
10	Northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Lights	amod
11	Lights	Light	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 glimmer	nmod
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 plains	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 plains	det
14	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 Lights	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Lapland	case
16	Lapland	Lapland	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 plains	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hops	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hops	cc
19	hops	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wings	conj
20	among	among	ADP	_	23 flowers	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 flowers	det
22	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 flowers	amod
23	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hops	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	28 summer	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 summer	det
26	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 summer	amod
27	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 summer	compound
28	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hops	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wings	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hop	present				the yellow flowers	summer		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among flower=Trajectory
2	glimmer		the Northern Lights over the plains of Lapland						nom glimmer «event intransitive»: of=agent

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.

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