Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 18

Then he would wait no longer, but flew away, to commence his wooing at once.

Who acts: difference · What happens: wait, fly away, commence, woo · To what, where: wooing

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 (difference), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 wait	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wait	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wait	aux
4	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	no	no	ADV	_	6 longer	advmod
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 wait	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 flew	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 flew	cc
9	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wait	parataxis
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 flew	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 commence	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 commence	mark
13	commence	commence	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wait	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wooing	nmod:poss
15	wooing	wooing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 commence	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 once	case
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 commence	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wait	would	difference		then	long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly away	past				away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	commence	to-infinitive	difference not said here	difference's wooing			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wooing=Eventuality
4	woo		difference				nom wooing «communication transitive»: poss=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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