Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Phoenix Bird, sentence 19
The Bird of Paradise--renewed each century--born in flame, ending in flame!
What happens: renew, bear, end · To what, where: Bird, flame
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Bird | det |
| 2 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Paradise | case |
| 4 | Paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bird | nmod |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 renewed | punct |
| 6 | renewed | renew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Bird | acl |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 century | det |
| 8 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 renewed | obj |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 born | punct |
| 10 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Bird | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 flame | case |
| 12 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 born | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ending | punct |
| 14 | ending | end | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 born | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 flame | case |
| 16 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ending | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bird | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | renew | participle | the Bird of Paradise not said here | century | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bear | participle | flame | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | end | gerund | flame | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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