Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Phoenix Bird, sentence 6

The fable tells that he dwells in Arabia, and that every hundred years, he burns himself to death in his nest; but each time a new Phoenix, the only one in the world, rises up from the red egg.

Who acts: fable, hundred years, time · What happens: tell, dwell, burn, rise up · To what, where: Arabia, fable, nest, red egg · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (fable, hundred years, time), 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 fable	det
2	fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 dwells	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dwells	nsubj
6	dwells	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tells	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Arabia	case
8	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dwells	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 burns	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 burns	cc
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 every	nsubj
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 years	det
13	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 years	nummod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 burns	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 years	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 burns	nsubj
17	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tells	conj
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 burns	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 death	case
20	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 burns	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 nest	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 nest	nmod:poss
23	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 burns	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 rises	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 rises	cc
26	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 rises	nsubj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 Phoenix	det
29	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Phoenix	amod
30	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 time	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 one	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 one	det
33	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 one	amod
34	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Phoenix	appos
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 world	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 world	det
37	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 one	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 time	punct
39	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tells	conj
40	up	up	ADP	_	39 rises	compound:prt
41	from	from	ADP	_	44 egg	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 egg	det
43	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 egg	amod
44	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 rises	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the fable				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	dwell	present	fable		Arabia		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arabia=Location
3	burn	present	every hundred years	fable	fable's nest	to death	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
4	rise up	present	each time		the red egg		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from egg=Initial_Location

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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