Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 66

Air and light are the lovers of the flowers, but light is the favored one; towards light it turns, and only when light vanishes does it fold its leaves together, and sleep in the embraces of the air."

Who acts: Air, light · What happens: be, favor, turn, vanish, fold, embrace · To what, where: lovers, favored one, sleep, light, leaves, air

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Air, light), 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	Air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lovers	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 light	cc
3	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Air	conj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lovers	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lovers	det
6	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 flowers	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flowers	det
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lovers	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 one	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 one	cc
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 one	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 one	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 one	det
15	favored	favor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 one	amod
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lovers	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 turns	punct
18	towards	towards	ADP	_	19 light	case
19	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turns	obl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 turns	nsubj
21	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lovers	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fold	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fold	cc
24	only	only	ADV	_	30 fold	advmod
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 vanishes	mark
26	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 vanishes	nsubj
27	vanishes	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 fold	advcl
28	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 fold	aux
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fold	nsubj
30	fold	fold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 turns	conj
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 leaves	nmod:poss
32	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fold	obj
33	together	together	ADV	_	30 fold	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sleep	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sleep	cc
36	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turns	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 embraces	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 embraces	det
39	embraces	embrace	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 sleep	nmod
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 air	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 air	det
42	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 embraces	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 turns	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 turns	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Air and light	the lovers but the favored one		of the flowers	tree rules
2	favor	participle					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	present	light	the favored one			tree rules
4	turn	present	air	sleep in the embraces of the air	light		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards light=Trajectory
5	vanish	present	light				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fold	present · do-support	light	light's leaves		together property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
7	embrace			the air			nom embrace «act transitive»: of=patient

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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