Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Phoenix Bird, sentence 16

On the car of Thespis he sat in the guise of a chattering raven, and flapped his black wings, smeared with the lees of wine; over the sounding harp of Iceland swept the swan's red beak; on Shakspeare's shoulder he sat in the guise of Odin's raven, and whispered in the poet's ear "Immortality!" and at the minstrels' feast he fluttered through the halls of the Wartburg.

Who acts: bird · What happens: sit, flap, smear, sound, sweep, whisper · To what, where: car, black wings, red beak, sounding harp, shoulder, ear

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), 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	_	3 car	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 car	det
3	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Thespis	case
5	Thespis	Thespis	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 car	nmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sat	nsubj
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 guise	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 guise	det
10	guise	guise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 raven	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 raven	det
13	chattering	chattering	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 raven	compound
14	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 guise	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flapped	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 flapped	cc
17	flapped	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sat	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wings	nmod:poss
19	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wings	amod
20	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 flapped	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 smeared	punct
22	smeared	smear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 flapped	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 lees	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 lees	det
25	lees	lee	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 smeared	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 wine	case
27	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lees	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 swept	punct
29	over	over	ADP	_	32 harp	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 harp	det
31	sounding	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 harp	amod
32	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 swept	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Iceland	case
34	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 harp	nmod
35	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sat	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 swan	det
37	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 beak	nmod:poss
38	's	's	PART	_	37 swan	case
39	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 beak	amod
40	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 swept	obj
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 sat	punct
42	on	on	ADP	_	45 shoulder	case
43	Shakspeare	Shakspeare	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 shoulder	nmod:poss
44	's	's	PART	_	43 Shakspeare	case
45	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 sat	obl
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 sat	nsubj
47	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sat	conj
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 guise	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 guise	det
50	guise	guise	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 sat	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	54 raven	case
52	Odin	Odin	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 raven	nmod:poss
53	's	's	PART	_	52 Odin	case
54	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 guise	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 whispered	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 whispered	cc
57	whispered	whisper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 sat	conj
58	in	in	ADP	_	62 ear	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 poet	det
60	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 ear	nmod:poss
61	's	's	PART	_	60 poet	case
62	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 whispered	obl
63	"	"	PUNCT	_	64 Immortality	punct
64	Immortality	immortality	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 ear	appos
65	!	!	PUNCT	_	64 Immortality	punct
66	"	"	PUNCT	_	64 Immortality	punct
67	and	and	CCONJ	_	72 feast	cc
68	at	at	ADP	_	72 feast	case
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 minstrels	det
70	minstrels	minstrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	72 feast	nmod:poss
71	'	's	PART	_	70 minstrels	case
72	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 ear	conj
73	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	74 fluttered	nsubj
74	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	72 feast	acl:relcl
75	through	through	ADP	_	77 halls	case
76	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	77 halls	det
77	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	74 fluttered	obl
78	of	of	ADP	_	80 Wartburg	case
79	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	80 Wartburg	det
80	Wartburg	Wartburg	PROPN	Number=Sing	77 halls	nmod
81	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	bird		the car of Thespis	in the guise of a chattering raven	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on car=Location
2	flap	past	bird not said here	bird's black wings			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
3	smear	participle	bird not said here			with the lees of wine	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with lee=Theme
4	sound	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	sweep	past	bird not said here	the swan's red beak	the sounding harp of Iceland		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent beak=Theme over harp=Trajectory
6	sit	past	bird		Shakspeare's shoulder	in the guise of Odin's raven	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Location
7	whisper speech: assert	participle	bird not said here		the poet's ear and the minstrels's feast		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location
8	flutter	past	bird	the minstrels's feast not said here	the halls of the Wartburg		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location feast=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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