Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 31

Great white lilies with green juicy leaves shot upward from the marble basin in which the clear water was splashing; and a form glided past, the daughter of the princely house, graceful, delicate, and wonderfully fair.

Who acts: Great white lilies, clear water · What happens: shot, splash, glide · To what, where: marble basin, form

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great white lilies, clear water), 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	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lilies	amod
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lilies	amod
3	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shot	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 leaves	case
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 leaves	amod
6	juicy	juicy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 leaves	amod
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lilies	nmod
8	shot	shot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	upward	upward	ADV	_	8 shot	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 basin	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 basin	det
12	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 basin	compound
13	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shot	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 splashing	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 water	det
17	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 water	amod
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 splashing	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 splashing	aux
20	splashing	splash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 basin	acl:relcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 glided	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 glided	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 form	det
24	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 glided	nsubj:pass
25	glided	glide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 shot	parataxis
26	past	past	ADV	_	25 glided	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 daughter	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 daughter	det
29	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 glided	parataxis
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 house	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 house	det
32	princely	princely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 house	amod
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 daughter	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 graceful	punct
35	graceful	graceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 daughter	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 delicate	punct
37	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 graceful	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 fair	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 fair	cc
40	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	41 fair	advmod
41	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 graceful	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 shot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shot	present	Great white lilies with green juicy leaves		the marble basin	upward property	tree rules
2	splash	past · progressive	the clear water		the marble basin		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location
3	glide	participle · passive		a form		past property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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