Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Phoenix Bird, sentence 18

He sang to thee the Marseillaise, and thou kissedst the pen that fell from his wing; he came in the radiance of Paradise, and perchance thou didst turn away from him towards the sparrow who sat with tinsel on his wings.

Who acts: bird, thou, pen, perchance, sparrow, Paradise · What happens: sing, kiss, fall, come, do, turn away · To what, where: Marseillaise, thee, pen, wing, radiance, perchance

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, thou, pen, perchance), 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 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 thee	case
4	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 sang	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Marseillaise	det
6	Marseillaise	marseillaise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sang	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kissedst	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 kissedst	cc
9	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 kissedst	nsubj
10	kissedst	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sang	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pen	det
12	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kissedst	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 fell	nsubj
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pen	acl:relcl
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 wing	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wing	nmod:poss
17	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fell	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sang	parataxis
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 radiance	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 radiance	det
23	radiance	radiance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Paradise	case
25	Paradise	Paradise	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 radiance	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 turn	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 turn	cc
28	perchance	perchance	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 turn	nsubj
29	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 didst	nsubj
30	didst	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 perchance	acl:relcl
31	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 came	conj
32	away	away	ADV	_	31 turn	advmod
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 turn	obl
35	towards	towards	ADP	_	37 sparrow	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sparrow	det
37	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 turn	obl
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 sat	nsubj
39	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 sparrow	acl:relcl
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 tinsel	case
41	tinsel	tinsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sat	obl
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 wings	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 wings	nmod:poss
44	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 sat	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	bird	the Marseillaise	thee			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent marseillaise=Topic to thou=Recipient
2	kiss	past	thou	the pen				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pen=Co-Agent
3	fall	past	the pen			bird's wing		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wing=Initial_Location
4	come	past	bird			the radiance of Paradise		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in radiance=Location
5	do	past	thou	perchance not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perchance=Eventuality
6	turn away	infinitive	perchance				from bird; towards the sparrow; away property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from he=Source
7	sit	past	the sparrow			bird's wings	with tinsel	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wing=Location
8	radiate		Paradise					nom radiance «phenomenon 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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