Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Phoenix Bird, sentence 5
The bird perished in the flames; but from the red egg in the nest there fluttered aloft a new one--the one solitary Phoenix bird.
Who acts: bird · What happens: perish, flutter · To what, where: bird, flames, aloft new one, red egg
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fluttered | nsubj |
| 3 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 bird | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 flames | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flames | det |
| 6 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 perished | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 fluttered | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 fluttered | cc |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 egg | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 egg | det |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 egg | amod |
| 12 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fluttered | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 nest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 nest | det |
| 15 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 egg | nmod |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 nest | advmod |
| 17 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | aloft | aloft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 one | amod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 one | det |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 one | amod |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fluttered | obj |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 bird | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bird | det |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 solitary | nummod |
| 25 | solitary | solitary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bird | compound |
| 26 | Phoenix | Phoenix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 bird | compound |
| 27 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 one | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 fluttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perish | participle | the bird not said here | the flames | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | flutter | past | the bird | a aloft new one and the solitary Phoenix bird | the red egg in the nest | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=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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