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title: Great white lilies with green juicy leaves shot upward from the marb… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Great white lilies with green juicy leaves shot upward from the marble basin in which the clear water was splashing; and a form glided past, the daughter of the princely house, graceful, delicate, and wonderfully fair. Who acts: Great white lilies, clear water. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Chr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 31

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Great white lilies with green juicy leaves shot upward from the marble basin in which the clear water was splashing; and a form glided past, the daughter of the princely house, graceful, delicate, and wonderfully fair.

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**Who acts:** Great white lilies, clear water · **What happens:** shot, splash, glide · **To what, where:** marble basin, form

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great white lilies, clear water), 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:pg27200:151:31
# text = Great white lilies with green juicy leaves shot upward from the marble basin in which the clear water was splashing; and a form glided past, the daughter of the princely house, graceful, delicate, and wonderfully fair.
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	juicy	juicy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	shot	shot	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	splashing	splash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	glided	glide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
26	past	past	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	parataxis	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	princely	princely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shot** | present | Great white lilies with green juicy leaves |  |  | the marble basin |  | upward *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **splash** | past · progressive | the clear water |  |  | the marble basin |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 3 | **glide** | participle · passive |  | a form |  |  |  | past *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent |

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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:** «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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