Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 11

The butterfly came also to Marguerite to inquire, but he did not pluck off her leaves; he pressed a kiss on each of them, for he thought there was always more to be done by kindness.

Who acts: butterfly, kindness · What happens: come, inquire, not pluck off, press, think, be · To what, where: Marguerite, leaves, kiss, each, more · Speech: someone speaks here

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, kindness), 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 butterfly	det
2	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	also	also	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Marguerite	case
6	Marguerite	Marguerite	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 inquire	mark
8	inquire	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pluck	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 pluck	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pluck	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pluck	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 pluck	advmod
14	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 inquire	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 pluck	compound:prt
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 leaves	nmod:poss
17	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pluck	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 pressed	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pressed	nsubj
20	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 kiss	det
22	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pressed	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 each	case
24	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 pressed	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 each	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 thought	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 thought	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 thought	nsubj
30	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 pressed	conj
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 was	expl
32	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 thought	ccomp
33	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	34 more	advmod
34	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 thought	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	37 done	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 done	aux:pass
37	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 more	advcl
38	by	by	ADP	_	39 kindness	case
39	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 done	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	the butterfly		Marguerite	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to marguerite=Initial_Location
2	inquire speech: other	to-infinitive	the butterfly not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not pluck off	past · do-support	butterfly	Marguerite's leaves		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
4	press	past	butterfly	a kiss	each	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme
5	think speech: other	past	butterfly	more		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent more=Attribute clause=Theme
6	be	past			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	do	to-infinitive · passive	kindness			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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