Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Phoenix Bird, sentence 9
He flies through the chamber of content, and brings sunshine into it, and the violets on the humble table smell doubly sweet.
Who acts: bird, violets · What happens: fly, bring, smell · To what, where: chamber, sunshine
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, violets), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flies | nsubj |
| 2 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 chamber | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chamber | det |
| 5 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flies | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 content | case |
| 7 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chamber | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brings | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 brings | cc |
| 10 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 flies | conj |
| 11 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brings | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brings | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 smell | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 smell | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 violets | det |
| 17 | violets | violet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 smell | nsubj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 table | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 table | det |
| 20 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 table | amod |
| 21 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 violets | nmod |
| 22 | smell | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 flies | conj |
| 23 | doubly | doubly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 sweet | advmod |
| 24 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 smell | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | bird | the chamber of content | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through chamber=Location | ||||
| 2 | bring | present | bird not said here | sunshine | sunshine | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sunshine=Theme into it=Destination | |||
| 3 | smell | present | the violets on the humble table | sweet property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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