Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 5

Oh, what sweet fragrance there was in his chambers! and how clean and beautiful were the walls! for they were the blushing leaves of the rose.

Who acts: walls · What happens: be · To what, where: walls

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walls), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 walls	nsubj
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fragrance	amod
5	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 was	nsubj
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 chambers	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 chambers	nmod:poss
10	chambers	chamber	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 was	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 clean	cc
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 clean	advmod
14	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 what	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 beautiful	cc
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 clean	conj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 walls	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 walls	det
19	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 walls	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	26 leaves	case
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 leaves	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 leaves	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 leaves	det
25	blushing	blushing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 leaves	amod
26	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 walls	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 rose	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rose	det
29	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 leaves	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 walls	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the walls					tree rules
2	is	past	walls = wall					for the blushing leaves; of the rose	tree rules

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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