Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Phoenix Bird, sentence 3
His flight was like the flashing of light, his plumage was beauteous, and his song ravishing.
Who acts: flight, plumage, song, bird · What happens: be, ravish, sing
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 (flight, plumage, song, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 flight | nmod:poss |
| 2 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flashing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flashing | cop |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 flashing | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flashing | det |
| 6 | flashing | flashing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 light | case |
| 8 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flashing | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beauteous | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 plumage | nmod:poss |
| 11 | plumage | plumage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beauteous | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 beauteous | cop |
| 13 | beauteous | beauteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 flashing | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 song | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 song | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 song | nmod:poss |
| 17 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beauteous | obl |
| 18 | ravishing | ravish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 song | acl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flashing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | bird's flight | like the flashing; of light | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | bird's plumage | bird's song obl; beauteous property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ravish | gerund | bird's song not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | sing | bird | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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