Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 1
High up in the clear, pure air flew an angel, with a flower plucked from the garden of heaven.
Who acts: clear pure air · What happens: fly, pluck · To what, where: angel, flower, garden
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clear pure air), 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 | High | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 up | advmod |
| 2 | up | up | ADV | _ | 9 flew | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 5 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 air | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 clear | punct |
| 7 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 air | amod |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flew | nsubj |
| 9 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 angel | det |
| 11 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flew | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flower | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 flower | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 flower | det |
| 15 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flew | conj |
| 16 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 flower | acl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 garden | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 garden | det |
| 19 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 plucked | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 heaven | case |
| 21 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 garden | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the clear pure air | a angel | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location angel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pluck | participle | a flower not said here | the garden of heaven | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from garden=Source |
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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