Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Phoenix Bird, sentence 13

On a lotus leaf he floats down the sacred waters of the Ganges, and the eye of the Hindoo maid gleams bright when she beholds him.

Who acts: bird, eye · What happens: float, gleam, behold · To what, where: lotus leaf, bird

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, eye), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 leaf	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 leaf	det
3	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaf	compound
4	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 floats	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 floats	nsubj
6	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	10 waters	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 waters	det
9	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 waters	amod
10	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 floats	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Ganges	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Ganges	det
13	Ganges	Ganges	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 waters	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gleams	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 gleams	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 eye	det
17	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gleams	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 maid	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 maid	det
20	Hindoo	Hindoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 maid	compound
21	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eye	nmod
22	gleams	gleam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 floats	parataxis
23	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 gleams	xcomp
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 beholds	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 beholds	nsubj
26	beholds	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 gleams	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 beholds	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 floats	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	float	present	bird		a lotus leaf	down the sacred waters of the Ganges	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on leaf=Source down water=Trajectory
2	gleam	present	the eye of the Hindoo maid			bright property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	behold	present	eye	bird			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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