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title: The bird perished in the flames; but from the red egg in the nest th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The bird perished in the flames; but from the red egg in the nest there fluttered aloft a new one--the one solitary Phoenix bird. Who acts: bird. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Phoenix Bird, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Phoenix Bird, sentence 5

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The bird perished in the flames; but from the red egg in the nest there fluttered aloft a new one--the one solitary Phoenix bird.

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**Who acts:** bird · **What happens:** perish, flutter · **To what, where:** bird, flames, aloft new one, red egg

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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 (bird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:144:5
# text = The bird perished in the flames; but from the red egg in the nest there fluttered aloft a new one--the one solitary Phoenix bird.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
3	perished	perish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
17	fluttered	flutter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	aloft	aloft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	solitary	solitary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perish** | participle |  | the bird *not said here* |  | the flames |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **flutter** | past | the bird | a aloft new one and the solitary Phoenix bird |  | the red egg in the nest |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme |

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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.

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**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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