Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Phoenix Bird, sentence 7
The bird flutters round us, swift as light, beauteous in color, charming in song.
Who acts: bird · What happens: flutter · To what, where: swift
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 | 3 flutters | nsubj |
| 3 | flutters | flutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADP | _ | 5 us | case |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 flutters | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 swift | punct |
| 7 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flutters | obl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 light | case |
| 9 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swift | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 beauteous | punct |
| 11 | beauteous | beauteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 swift | amod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 color | case |
| 13 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beauteous | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 charming | punct |
| 15 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 color | appos |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 song | case |
| 17 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 charming | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flutters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flutter | present | the bird | swift as light | round us | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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