The Aesop for Children, The Rose and the Butterfly, sentence 3

And so, when he fluttered near and told how he loved her, she blushed rosily and said yes.

Who acts: Butterfly, she · What happens: flutter, tell, love, blush, say · To what, where: her · Speech: someone speaks here

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, she), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 fluttered	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	6 fluttered	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fluttered	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 fluttered	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fluttered	nsubj
6	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	near	near	ADV	_	6 fluttered	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fluttered	conj
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 loved	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 loved	nsubj
12	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	ccomp
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 loved	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 blushed	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 blushed	nsubj
16	blushed	blush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fluttered	conj
17	rosily	rosily	ADV	_	16 blushed	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 blushed	conj
20	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	19 said	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fluttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	flutter	past	Butterfly		near property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	Butterfly not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	love	past	Butterfly	her = she		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	blush	past	she		rosily property	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	she not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic

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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