Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Phoenix Bird, sentence 8

When a mother sits by her infant's cradle, he stands on the pillow, and, with his wings, forms a glory around the infant's head.

Who acts: mother, bird · What happens: sit, stand, form · To what, where: pillow, glory, head

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 (mother, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 sits	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mother	det
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sits	nsubj
4	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 stands	advcl
5	by	by	ADP	_	9 cradle	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 infant	nmod:poss
7	infant	infant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cradle	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 infant	case
9	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sits	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sits	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stands	nsubj
12	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 pillow	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pillow	det
15	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stands	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 forms	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 forms	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 and	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 wings	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wings	nmod:poss
21	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 forms	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wings	punct
23	forms	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 stands	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 glory	det
25	glory	glory	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 forms	obj
26	around	around	ADP	_	30 head	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 infant	det
28	infant	infant	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 head	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 infant	case
30	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 glory	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 stands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	present	a mother			by mother's infant's cradle	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by cradle=Location
2	stand	present	bird		the pillow		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on pillow=Location
3	form	present	bird not said here	a glory	the infant's head	with bird's wings	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location glory=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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