Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 87

In the fresh water grew water-lilies, nymphaea, and reeds; the gold-fishes stood up below in rank and file, all turning their heads one way, that the streaming water might flow into their mouths.

Who acts: fresh water, gold fishes, all, streaming water · What happens: grow, stand up, turn, flow · To what, where: water lilies, rank, heads, mouths

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fresh water, gold fishes, all, streaming 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 water	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lilies	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 water	punct
8	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grew	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nymphaea	punct
10	nymphaea	nymphaea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lilies	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 reeds	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 reeds	cc
13	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grew	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 stood	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fishes	det
16	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fishes	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 gold	punct
18	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stood	nsubj
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grew	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 stood	compound:prt
21	below	below	ADV	_	19 stood	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 rank	case
23	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stood	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 file	cc
25	file	file	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rank	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 turning	punct
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 turning	nsubj
28	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 rank	acl
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 heads	nmod:poss
30	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 turning	obj
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 way	nummod
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 turning	obl:unmarked
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 flow	punct
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 flow	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 water	det
36	streaming	streaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 water	compound
37	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 flow	nsubj
38	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 flow	aux
39	flow	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 stood	conj
40	into	into	ADP	_	42 mouths	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 mouths	nmod:poss
42	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 flow	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the fresh water	water lilies and nymphaea		reeds obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lily=Theme
2	stand up	past	the gold fishes		rank and file	below property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rank=Location
3	turn	gerund	all	fishes's heads		one way obl:unmarked	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme
4	flow	might	the streaming water		fishes's mouths		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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