Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 9

Pure white curtains fluttered before the open windows, and beautiful flowers stood in shining, transparent vases; and in one of them, which looked as if it had been cut out of newly fallen snow, the apple-branch was placed, among some fresh, light twigs of beech.

Who acts: Pure white curtains · What happens: flutter, stand, shine, look, cut out, fall · To what, where: Pure white curtains, open windows, transparent vases, tale, fallen snow, apple branch

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pure white curtains), 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	Pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 curtains	amod
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 curtains	amod
3	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stood	nsubj
4	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 curtains	acl
5	before	before	ADP	_	8 windows	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 windows	det
7	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 windows	amod
8	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fluttered	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stood	cc
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 flowers	amod
12	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stood	nsubj
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	in	in	SCONJ	_	15 shining	mark
15	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 stood	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 vases	punct
17	transparent	transparent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 vases	amod
18	vases	vas	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 shining	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 looked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 looked	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 one	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 looked	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 one	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 one	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 looked	nsubj
27	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stood	conj
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 cut	mark
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 cut	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 cut	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 cut	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 cut	aux:pass
33	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 looked	parataxis
34	out	out	ADP	_	38 snow	case
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 snow	case
36	newly	newly	ADV	_	37 fallen	advmod
37	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 snow	amod
38	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cut	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 placed	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 branch	det
41	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 branch	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 apple	punct
43	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 placed	nsubj:pass
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 placed	aux:pass
45	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 cut	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 twigs	punct
47	among	among	ADP	_	52 twigs	case
48	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	52 twigs	det
49	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 twigs	amod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 fresh	punct
51	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 twigs	amod
52	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 placed	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 beech	case
54	beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 twigs	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flutter	participle		Pure white curtains not said here	the open windows		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before window=Location
2	stand	past	Pure white curtains				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	shine	gerund	Pure white curtains not said here	transparent vases			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent vas=Theme
4	look	past				in one of branches	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in one=Theme
5	cut out a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		tale	fallen snow		tree rules
6	fall	participle				newly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	place	past · passive		the apple branch	some fresh light twigs of beech		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme among twig=Destination

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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