Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 36

When suddenly the avenging angel drew back the veil from the flaming ocean of sunlight, and in a moment the wings of the proud bird were scorched and shrivelled, and they sunk miserably to the earth.

Who acts: avenging angel, wings · What happens: avenge, draw back, scorch, shrivell, sink · To what, where: veil, flaming ocean, wings

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (avenging angel, wings), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	2 suddenly	advmod
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	6 drew	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 angel	det
4	avenging	avenge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 angel	amod
5	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drew	nsubj
6	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 drew	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 veil	det
9	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drew	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 ocean	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ocean	det
12	flaming	flaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ocean	compound
13	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 veil	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 sunlight	case
15	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ocean	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 scorched	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 scorched	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 moment	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 moment	det
20	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 scorched	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wings	det
22	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 scorched	nsubj:pass
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 bird	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bird	det
25	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bird	amod
26	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wings	nmod
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 scorched	aux:pass
28	scorched	scorch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 drew	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 shrivelled	cc
30	shrivelled	shrivell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 scorched	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sunk	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sunk	cc
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sunk	nsubj
34	sunk	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 drew	conj
35	miserably	miserably	ADV	_	34 sunk	advmod
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 earth	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 earth	det
38	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sunk	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avenge	gerund						tree rules
2	draw back	past	the avenging angel	the veil	the flaming ocean of sunlight		suddenly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent veil=Theme from ocean=Initial_Location
3	scorch	past · passive		the wings of the proud bird		moment		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	shrivell	participle						tree rules
5	sink	past	wings = wing				to the earth; miserably property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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