Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 88

Then the little figures on the tree will become lively, and the little waxen angel at the top spread out his wings of gold-leaf, and fly down from his green perch.

Who acts: little figures, little waxen angel · What happens: become, spread out, fly down · To what, where: wings, green perch

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little figures, little waxen angel), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 become	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 figures	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 figures	amod
4	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 become	nsubj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 figures	nmod
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 become	aux
9	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 become	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 spread	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 spread	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 angel	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 angel	amod
15	waxen	waxen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 angel	amod
16	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spread	nsubj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 top	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 top	det
19	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 angel	nmod
20	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 become	parataxis
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 spread	compound:prt
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wings	nmod:poss
23	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 spread	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 leaf	case
25	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 leaf	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 gold	punct
27	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wings	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fly	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fly	cc
30	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 become	conj
31	down	down	ADV	_	30 fly	advmod
32	from	from	ADP	_	35 perch	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 perch	nmod:poss
34	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 perch	amod
35	perch	perch	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fly	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	future	the little figures on the tree			then	lively property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	spread out	past	the little waxen angel at the top	angel's wings of gold leaf				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
3	fly down	infinitive	the little figures on the tree not said here		angel's green perch		down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from perch=Trajectory

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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