Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 53

There stood white lilies with blood-red stamina, skyblue tulips, which shone as they waved in the winds, and apple-trees, the apples of which looked exactly like large soapbubbles: so only think how the trees must have sparkled in the sunshine!

Who acts: skyblue tulips, lilies, apples · What happens: stand, shine, wave, look, think, sparkle · To what, where: white lilies, trees, sunshine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skyblue tulips, lilies, apples), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 stood	expl
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lilies	amod
4	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 stamina	case
6	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stamina	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 blood	punct
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stamina	amod
9	stamina	stamina	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tulips	punct
11	skyblue	skyblue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tulips	amod
12	tulips	tulip	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stamina	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shone	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 shone	nsubj
15	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tulips	acl:relcl
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 waved	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 waved	nsubj
18	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 shone	advcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 winds	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 winds	det
21	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 waved	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 trees	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 trees	cc
24	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 trees	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 apple	punct
26	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 apples	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 apples	det
29	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 trees	appos
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 looked	nsubj
32	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 apples	acl:relcl
33	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	36 soapbubbles	advmod
34	like	like	ADP	_	36 soapbubbles	case
35	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 soapbubbles	amod
36	soapbubbles	soapbubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 looked	obl
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	40 think	punct
38	so	so	ADV	_	40 think	advmod
39	only	only	ADV	_	40 think	advmod
40	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stood	advcl
41	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	46 sparkled	advmod
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 trees	det
43	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 sparkled	nsubj:pass
44	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 sparkled	aux
45	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 sparkled	aux
46	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 think	ccomp
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 sunshine	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 sunshine	det
49	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 sparkled	obl
50	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past		white lilies	there	with blood red stamina; apple trees obl	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lily=Stimulus
2	shine	past	skyblue tulips				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wave	past	lilies = lily			in the winds	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wind=Theme
4	look	past	the apples			like large soapbubbles	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	think speech: other	infinitive					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	sparkle	must · perfect · passive		the trees	the sunshine		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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