Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 2

He glanced, with a very critical eye, at all the flower-beds, and found that the flowers were seated quietly and demurely on their stalks, just as maidens should sit before they are engaged; but there was a great number of them, and it appeared as if his search would become very wearisome.

Who acts: butterfly, maidens, great number, it, search · What happens: glance, find, seat, sit, engage, be · To what, where: flowers, stalks · 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, maidens, great number, it), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 glanced	nsubj
2	glanced	glance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eye	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	8 eye	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 eye	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 critical	advmod
7	critical	critical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eye	amod
8	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glanced	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 beds	punct
10	at	at	ADP	_	15 beds	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 beds	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 beds	det
13	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 beds	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 flower	punct
15	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 glanced	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 found	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 found	cc
18	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 glanced	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 seated	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 flowers	det
21	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 seated	nsubj:pass
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 seated	aux:pass
23	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 found	ccomp
24	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	23 seated	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 demurely	cc
26	demurely	demurely	ADV	_	24 quietly	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 stalks	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 stalks	nmod:poss
29	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 seated	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sit	punct
31	just	just	ADV	_	35 sit	advmod
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 sit	mark
33	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 sit	nsubj
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 sit	aux
35	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 seated	conj
36	before	before	SCONJ	_	39 engaged	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 engaged	nsubj:pass
38	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 engaged	aux:pass
39	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 sit	advcl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 was	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 was	cc
42	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	43 was	expl
43	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 glanced	parataxis
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 number	det
45	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 number	amod
46	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 was	nsubj
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 them	case
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 number	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 appeared	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 appeared	cc
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 appeared	nsubj
52	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 glanced	conj
53	as	as	SCONJ	_	58 become	mark
54	if	if	SCONJ	_	58 become	mark
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 search	nmod:poss
56	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 become	nsubj
57	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 become	aux
58	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 appeared	advcl
59	very	very	ADV	_	60 wearisome	advmod
60	wearisome	wearisome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 become	xcomp
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 glanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	glance	past	butterfly			with a critical eye; at all flower beds	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bed=Theme
2	find	past	butterfly not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	seat	past · passive		the flowers	flowers's stalks	quietly property	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value
4	sit	should	maidens				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	engage	present · passive		flowers = flower			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	be	past	a great number of flowers		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	appear	past	it				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	become	would	butterfly's search			wearisome property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
9	search		butterfly				nom search «act 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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