Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 163

A river, clear as the air itself, sparkled at their feet, while in its clear depths could be seen gold and silver fish sporting in the bright water, and purple eels emitting sparks of fire at every moment, while the broad leaves of the water-lilies, that floated on its surface, flickered with all the colors of the rainbow.

Who acts: river, silver fish, purple eels, water lilies, fire · What happens: sparkle, see, sport, emit, float, flicker · To what, where: feet, gold, clear depths, bright water, sparks, surface

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river, silver fish, purple eels, water lilies), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 river	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sparkled	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 clear	punct
4	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 river	amod
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clear	obl
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	7 air	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sparkled	punct
10	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 feet	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 feet	nmod:poss
13	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sparkled	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seen	punct
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 seen	mark
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 depths	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 depths	nmod:poss
18	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 depths	amod
19	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 seen	obl
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 seen	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 seen	aux:pass
22	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 sparkled	advcl
23	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 seen	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fish	cc
25	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fish	compound
26	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 gold	conj
27	sporting	sport	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 fish	acl
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 water	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 water	det
30	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 water	amod
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sporting	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 flickered	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 flickered	cc
34	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 eels	amod
35	eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 flickered	nsubj:pass
36	emitting	emit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 eels	acl
37	sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 emitting	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 fire	case
39	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sparks	nmod
40	at	at	ADP	_	42 moment	case
41	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	42 moment	det
42	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 emitting	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 leaves	punct
44	while	while	SCONJ	_	47 leaves	mark
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 leaves	det
46	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 leaves	amod
47	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 eels	conj
48	of	of	ADP	_	52 lilies	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 lilies	det
50	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 lilies	compound
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 water	punct
52	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 leaves	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 floated	punct
54	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 floated	nsubj
55	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 lilies	acl:relcl
56	on	on	ADP	_	58 surface	case
57	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 surface	nmod:poss
58	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 floated	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 flickered	punct
60	flickered	flicker	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 sparkled	conj
61	with	with	ADP	_	64 colors	case
62	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	64 colors	det:predet
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 colors	det
64	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 flickered	obl
65	of	of	ADP	_	67 rainbow	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 rainbow	det
67	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 colors	nmod
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sparkled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sparkle	participle	a river		mountains's feet			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Location
2	see	could · passive	a river not said here	gold and silver fish	air's clear depths			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: gold=Stimulus
3	sport	gerund	silver fish not said here		the bright water			tree rules
4	emit	gerund	purple eels and the broad leaves of the water lilies not said here	sparks of fire		moment		vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source spark=Theme
5	float	past	the water lilies		air's surface			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on surface=Trajectory
6	flicker	participle · passive		purple eels and the broad leaves of the water lilies			with all colors of the rainbow	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
7	spark		fire					nom spark «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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