Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Phoenix Bird, sentence 4
But when Eve plucked the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, when she and Adam were driven from Paradise, there fell from the flaming sword of the cherub a spark into the nest of the bird, which blazed up forthwith.
Who acts: Eve, bird · What happens: pluck, drive, fall, blaze up · To what, where: fruit, Eve, Paradise, spark, flaming sword
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 (Eve, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 fell | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 plucked | advmod |
| 3 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 plucked | nsubj |
| 4 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 fell | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fruit | det |
| 6 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plucked | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fruit | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 knowledge | case |
| 11 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 good | case |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 knowledge | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 evil | cc |
| 15 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 good | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 driven | punct |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 driven | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Adam | cc |
| 20 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 she | conj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 driven | aux:pass |
| 22 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 plucked | conj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 Paradise | case |
| 24 | Paradise | Paradise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 driven | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 plucked | punct |
| 26 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 fell | expl |
| 27 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 sword | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sword | det |
| 30 | flaming | flaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sword | compound |
| 31 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fell | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 cherub | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 cherub | det |
| 34 | cherub | cherub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sword | nmod |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 spark | det |
| 36 | spark | spark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fell | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 nest | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 nest | det |
| 39 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fell | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 bird | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 bird | det |
| 42 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 nest | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 blazed | punct |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 blazed | nsubj |
| 45 | blazed | blaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 bird | acl:relcl |
| 46 | up | up | ADP | _ | 45 blazed | compound:prt |
| 47 | forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 45 blazed | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck | past | Eve | the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | ||||
| 2 | drive | past · passive | Eve | Paradise | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme from paradise=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | a spark | the flaming sword of the cherub; there | into the nest of the bird | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from sword=Initial_Location into nest=Destination | |||
| 4 | blaze up | past | the bird | forthwith property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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