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title: There stood white lilies with blood-red stamina, skyblue tulips, whi… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There stood white lilies with blood-red stamina, skyblue tulips, which shone as they waved in the winds, and apple-trees, the apples of which looked exactly like large soapbubbles: so only think how the trees must have sparkled in the sunshine! Who acts: skyblue tulips, lilies, apples. A sentence of
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 53

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There stood white lilies with blood-red stamina, skyblue tulips, which shone as they waved in the winds, and apple-trees, the apples of which looked exactly like large soapbubbles: so only think how the trees must have sparkled in the sunshine!

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**Who acts:** skyblue tulips, lilies, apples · **What happens:** stand, shine, wave, look, think, sparkle · **To what, where:** white lilies, trees, sunshine · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skyblue tulips, lilies, apples), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:18:53
# text = There stood white lilies with blood-red stamina, skyblue tulips, which shone as they waved in the winds, and apple-trees, the apples of which looked exactly like large soapbubbles: so only think how the trees must have sparkled in the sunshine!
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	stamina	stamina	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	skyblue	skyblue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tulips	tulip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	waved	wave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	appos	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	soapbubbles	soapbubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
39	only	only	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
41	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	46	advmod	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	aux	_	_
46	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	ccomp	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | white lilies |  | there |  | with blood red stamina; apple trees *obl* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lily=Stimulus |
| 2 | **shine** | past | skyblue tulips |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wave** | past | lilies *= lily* |  |  |  |  | in the winds | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wind=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | past | the apples |  |  |  |  | like large soapbubbles | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **sparkle** | must · perfect · passive |  | the trees |  | the sunshine |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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