Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 1

There was once a butterfly who wished for a bride, and, as may be supposed, he wanted to choose a very pretty one from among the flowers.

Who acts: butterfly · What happens: be, wish, suppose, want, choose · To what, where: pretty one, flowers

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 butterfly	det
5	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 wished	nsubj
7	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 butterfly	acl:relcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 bride	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bride	det
10	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wished	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wanted	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wanted	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 and	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 supposed	mark
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 supposed	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 supposed	aux:pass
17	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 wanted	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 supposed	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wanted	nsubj
20	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 choose	mark
22	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wanted	xcomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 one	det
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 pretty	advmod
25	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 one	amod
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 choose	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	30 flowers	case
28	among	among	ADP	_	30 flowers	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 flowers	det
30	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 one	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a butterfly		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wish	past	a butterfly			for a bride	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for bride=Theme
3	suppose	may · passive	butterfly not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»
4	want	past	butterfly				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	choose not said to happen	to-infinitive	butterfly not said here	a pretty one	the flowers		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent one=Theme from flower=Source

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: «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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