Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 21

The girl stood still before the wonderful plant, for the green leaves exhaled a sweet and refreshing fragrance, and the flowers glittered and sparkled in the sunshine like colored flames, and the harmony of sweet sounds lingered round them as if each concealed within itself a deep fount of melody, which thousands of years could not exhaust.

Who acts: girl, green leaves, thousands · What happens: stand, exhale, refresh, glitter, sparkle, linger · To what, where: flowers, wonderful plant, sweet fragrance, sunshine, sweet sounds, each

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, green leaves, thousands), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	still	still	ADV	_	3 stood	advmod
5	before	before	ADP	_	8 plant	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 plant	det
7	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plant	amod
8	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 exhaled	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 exhaled	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 leaves	det
12	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 leaves	amod
13	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 exhaled	nsubj
14	exhaled	exhale	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 fragrance	det
16	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fragrance	amod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 refreshing	cc
18	refreshing	refresh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 sweet	conj
19	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 exhaled	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 flowers	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 flowers	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 flowers	det
23	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stood	obl
24	glittered	glitter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 flowers	acl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sparkled	cc
26	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 glittered	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 sunshine	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sunshine	det
29	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sparkled	obl
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 flames	case
31	colored	colored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 flames	amod
32	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sunshine	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 harmony	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 harmony	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 harmony	det
36	harmony	harmony	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flowers	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 sounds	case
38	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 sounds	amod
39	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 harmony	nmod
40	lingered	linger	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 sounds	acl
41	round	round	ADP	_	42 them	case
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 lingered	obl
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	46 concealed	mark
44	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 concealed	mark
45	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	46 concealed	nsubj:pass
46	concealed	conceal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 lingered	advcl
47	within	within	ADP	_	48 itself	case
48	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	46 concealed	obl
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 fount	det
50	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 fount	amod
51	fount	fount	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 concealed	obj
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 melody	case
53	melody	melody	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 fount	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 exhaust	punct
55	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	61 exhaust	obj
56	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 exhaust	nsubj
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 years	case
58	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 thousands	nmod
59	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 exhaust	aux
60	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	61 exhaust	advmod
61	exhaust	exhaust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 melody	acl:relcl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the girl	the flowers and the harmony of sweet sounds	the wonderful plant	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before plant=Location
2	exhale	past	the green leaves	a sweet fragrance				vn exhale-40.1.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragrance=Theme
3	refresh	gerund	the green leaves not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	glitter	participle		the flowers and the harmony of sweet sounds not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sparkle	participle			the sunshine like colored flames			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location
6	linger	participle		sweet sounds not said here			round persons = person	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	conceal	participle · passive		each			within leaf	tree rules
8	not exhaust	could	thousands of years	melody				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer

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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