The Aesop for Children, The Rose and the Butterfly, sentence 1
A Butterfly once fell in love with a beautiful Rose.
Who acts: Butterfly · What happens: fall · To what, where: love
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rose and the Butterfly. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Butterfly), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Butterfly | det |
| 2 | Butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 fell | advmod |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 love | case |
| 6 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 Rose | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Rose | det |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Rose | amod |
| 10 | Rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a Butterfly | love | with a beautiful Rose; once property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |
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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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