Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Phoenix Bird, sentence 12

Beneath the copper mountains of Fablun, and England's coal mines, he flies, in the shape of a dusty moth, over the hymnbook that rests on the knees of the pious miner.

Who acts: bird, hymnbook · What happens: fly, rest · To what, where: shape, hymnbook, knees

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 (bird, hymnbook), 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	Beneath	beneath	ADP	_	4 mountains	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mountains	det
3	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mountains	compound
4	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 flies	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Fablun	case
6	Fablun	Fablun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mountains	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mines	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mines	cc
9	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 coal	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 England	case
11	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mines	compound
12	mines	mine	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mountains	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mountains	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 flies	nsubj
15	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 shape	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 shape	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shape	det
19	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flies	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 moth	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 moth	det
22	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 moth	amod
23	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shape	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hymnbook	punct
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 hymnbook	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hymnbook	det
27	hymnbook	hymnbook	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flies	obl
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 rests	nsubj
29	rests	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 hymnbook	acl:relcl
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 knees	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 knees	det
32	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 rests	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 miner	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 miner	det
35	pious	pious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 miner	amod
36	miner	miner	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 knees	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 flies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	bird	the shape of a dusty moth		the hymnbook		beneath the copper mountains of Fablun and coal mines	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent shape=Theme beneath mountain=Trajectory over hymnbook=Initial_Location
2	rest	present	the hymnbook			the knees of the pious miner			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on knee=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: «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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