Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 93

They who place themselves in a circle every evening on the mountain peaks; there they spread out their rose-colored wings, which, as the sun sinks, become more flaming red, until the lofty Alps seem to burn with fire.

Who acts: bells, sun, lofty Alps · What happens: spread out, color, sink, become, flame, seem · To what, where: colored wings

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bells, sun, lofty Alps), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 place	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 place	nsubj
3	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	3 place	nmod:unmarked
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 circle	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 circle	det
7	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 place	nmod
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 evening	det
9	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 circle	appos
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 peaks	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 peaks	det
12	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 peaks	compound
13	peaks	peak	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 evening	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 spread	punct
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 spread	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 spread	nsubj
17	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 place	parataxis
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 spread	compound:prt
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wings	nmod:poss
20	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 colored	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 rose	punct
22	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 wings	amod
23	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 spread	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 become	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 become	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 become	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 sinks	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sun	det
29	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sinks	nsubj
30	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 become	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sinks	punct
32	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 wings	acl:relcl
33	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 flaming	advmod
34	flaming	flame	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 become	xcomp
35	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 flaming	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 seem	punct
37	until	until	SCONJ	_	41 seem	mark
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Alps	det
39	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 Alps	amod
40	Alps	alp	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 seem	nsubj
41	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 spread	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 burn	mark
43	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 seem	xcomp
44	with	with	ADP	_	45 fire	case
45	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 burn	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 place	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spread out	present	bells = bell	bells's colored wings	there		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	color	participle					vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	sink	present	the sun				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	become	infinitive		bells's colored wings			tree rules
5	flame	gerund				red property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	seem	present	the lofty Alps				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
7	burn	to-infinitive	the lofty Alps not said here			with fire	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fire=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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