Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 70

May hundreds of colossal shells, some of a deep red, others of a grass green, stood on each side in rows, with blue fire in them, which lighted up the whole saloon, and shone through the walls, so that the sea was also illuminated.

Who acts: hundreds · What happens: stand, light up, shine, illuminate · To what, where: side, blue fire, walls, sea

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundreds), 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	May	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 stood	aux
2	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stood	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 shells	case
4	colossal	colossal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shells	amod
5	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hundreds	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 some	punct
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 shells	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	13 others	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 others	det
10	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 others	amod
11	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 others	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 red	punct
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 some	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 grass	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 grass	det
16	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 others	nmod
17	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grass	amod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stood	punct
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 side	case
21	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	22 side	det
22	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stood	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 rows	case
24	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stood	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fire	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 fire	case
27	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fire	amod
28	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rows	nmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fire	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 lighted	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 lighted	nsubj:pass
33	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 fire	conj
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 lighted	compound:prt
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 saloon	det
36	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 saloon	amod
37	saloon	saloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lighted	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 shone	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 shone	cc
40	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 stood	conj
41	through	through	ADP	_	43 walls	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 walls	det
43	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 shone	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 illuminated	punct
45	so	so	ADV	_	51 illuminated	advmod
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 illuminated	mark
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 sea	det
48	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 illuminated	nsubj:pass
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 illuminated	aux:pass
50	also	also	ADV	_	51 illuminated	advmod
51	illuminated	illuminate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 stood	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	may	hundreds of colossal shells		each side	in rows with blue fire in others	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location
2	light up	participle · passive		blue fire in others			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary saloon=Product
3	shine	participle	hundreds of colossal shells not said here		the walls		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wall=Location
4	illuminate	past · passive		the sea			vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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