The Aesop for Children, The Rose and the Butterfly, sentence 2
The Rose was not indifferent, for the Butterfly's wings were powdered in a charming pattern of gold and silver.
Who acts: Rose, gold · What happens: not be, powder, pattern · To what, where: wings, charming pattern
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 (Rose, gold), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rose | det |
| 2 | Rose | Rose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 indifferent | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 indifferent | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 indifferent | advmod |
| 5 | indifferent | indifferent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 powdered | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 powdered | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Butterfly | det |
| 9 | Butterfly | Butterfly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 wings | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Butterfly | case |
| 11 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 powdered | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 powdered | aux:pass |
| 13 | powdered | powder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 indifferent | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 pattern | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pattern | det |
| 16 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pattern | compound |
| 17 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 powdered | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 gold | case |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pattern | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 silver | cc |
| 21 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pattern | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 indifferent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the Rose | indifferent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | powder | past · passive | the Butterfly's wings | a charming pattern of gold and silver | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pattern | gold | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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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