Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 109

At the back, large palm-trees were growing; and the sunlight made the leaves--look quite glossy; and beneath them what a profusion of luxuriant green, and of flowers red like flame, yellow as amber, or white as new-fallen snow! "

Who acts: large palm trees, sunlight, flowers · What happens: grow, make, look, red, fall · To what, where: back, leaves

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large palm trees, sunlight, flowers), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 back	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 back	det
3	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 growing	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 back	punct
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 trees	amod
6	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trees	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 palm	punct
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 growing	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 growing	aux
10	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 made	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sunlight	det
14	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	nsubj
15	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 growing	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 leaves	det
17	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 made	obj
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 look	punct
19	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 made	advcl
20	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 glossy	advmod
21	glossy	glossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 look	xcomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 them	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 them	cc
24	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 growing	obl
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 profusion	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 profusion	det
28	profusion	profusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 them	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 green	case
30	luxuriant	luxuriant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 green	amod
31	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 profusion	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 red	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 red	cc
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 flowers	case
35	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 red	nsubj
36	red	red	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 profusion	appos
37	like	like	ADP	_	38 flame	case
38	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 red	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 yellow	punct
40	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 flame	amod
41	as	as	ADP	_	42 amber	case
42	amber	amber	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 yellow	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 white	punct
44	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 white	cc
45	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 red	parataxis
46	as	as	ADP	_	50 snow	case
47	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 fallen	amod
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 new	punct
49	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 snow	amod
50	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 white	obl
51	!	!	PUNCT	_	45 white	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 growing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past · progressive	large palm trees		the back	beneath wings = wing	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at back=Location
2	make	past	the sunlight	the leaves			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset leaf=Product
3	look	present	the sunlight not said here			glossy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	red	present	flowers			like flame	tree rules
5	fall	participle					vn occur-48.3 «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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