--- title: But when Eve plucked the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: But when Eve plucked the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, when she and Adam were driven from Paradise, there fell from the flaming sword of the cherub a spark into the nest of the bird, which blazed up forthwith. Who acts: Eve, bird. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Ander --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/144/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Phoenix Bird](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/144/) / 4 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Phoenix Bird, sentence 4 But when Eve plucked the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, when she and Adam were driven from Paradise, there fell from the flaming sword of the cherub a spark into the nest of the bird, which blazed up forthwith. **Who acts:** Eve, bird · **What happens:** pluck, drive, fall, blaze up · **To what, where:** fruit, Eve, Paradise, spark, flaming sword This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Phoenix Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eve, bird), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:144:4 # text = But when Eve plucked the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, when she and Adam were driven from Paradise, there fell from the flaming sword of the cherub a spark into the nest of the bird, which blazed up forthwith. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 3 Eve Eve PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 plucked pluck VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 knowledge knowledge NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 when when SCONJ WRB _ 22 mark _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 Adam Adam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 driven drive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Paradise Paradise PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 26 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 27 expl _ _ 27 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 flaming flaming NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 cherub cherub NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 spark spark NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 37 into into ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 45 nsubj _ _ 45 blazed blaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 acl:relcl _ _ 46 up up ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ _ 47 forthwith forthwith ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pluck** | past | Eve | the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | | 2 | **drive** | past · passive | | Eve | | Paradise | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme from paradise=Trajectory | | 3 | **fall** | past | | a spark | | the flaming sword of the cherub; there | | into the nest of the bird | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from sword=Initial\_Location into nest=Destination | | 4 | **blaze up** | past | the bird | | | | | forthwith *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/144/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/144/5/) - ↑ back to [The Phoenix Bird](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/144/)