Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 12

The tulips had the finest colours, and they knew it well, too, for they were standing bolt upright like candles, that one might see them the better.

Who acts: tulips, one · What happens: have, know, stand, see · To what, where: finest colours, size, bolt upright, tulips

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tulips, one), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tulips	det
2	tulips	tulip	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 colours	det
5	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 colours	amod
6	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knew	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 knew	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knew	nsubj
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knew	obj
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 knew	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 too	punct
14	too	too	ADV	_	10 knew	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 standing	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 standing	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 standing	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 standing	aux
19	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 knew	advcl
20	bolt	bolt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 upright	amod
21	upright	upright	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 standing	obj
22	like	like	ADP	_	23 candles	case
23	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 standing	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 see	punct
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 one	det
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 see	nsubj
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 see	aux
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 standing	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 see	obj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 better	det
31	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 see	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the tulips	the finest colours		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient
2	know	past	tulips = tulip	size	well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	stand	past · progressive	tulips = tulip	bolt upright	like candles	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer upright=Stimulus
4	see	might	that one	tulips = tulip	the better obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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