--- title: Air and light are the lovers of the flowers, but light is the favore… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Air and light are the lovers of the flowers, but light is the favored one; towards light it turns, and only when light vanishes does it fold its leaves together, and sleep in the embraces of the air." Who acts: Air, light. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/66/) [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 Clerk's Transformation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/) / 66 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 66 Air and light are the lovers of the flowers, but light is the favored one; towards light it turns, and only when light vanishes does it fold its leaves together, and sleep in the embraces of the air." **Who acts:** Air, light · **What happens:** be, favor, turn, vanish, fold, embrace · **To what, where:** lovers, favored one, sleep, light, leaves, air This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Air, light), 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:pg27200:44:66 # text = Air and light are the lovers of the flowers, but light is the favored one; towards light it turns, and only when light vanishes does it fold its leaves together, and sleep in the embraces of the air." 1 Air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 lovers lover NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 favored favor VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ _ 16 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 towards towards ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 24 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 25 when when SCONJ WRB _ 27 mark _ _ 26 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 vanishes vanish VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 28 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 fold fold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 31 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 together together ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 embraces embrace NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Air and light | the lovers but the favored one | | | | of the flowers | tree rules | | 2 | **favor** | participle | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is a** | present | light | the favored one | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **turn** | present | air | sleep in the embraces of the air | | light | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards light=Trajectory | | 5 | **vanish** | present | light | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **fold** | present · do-support | light | light's leaves | | | | together *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | | 7 | **embrace** | | | the air | | | | | nom embrace «act transitive»: of=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. - ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/67/) - ↑ back to [The Clerk's Transformation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/)