Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 20
"They are very pretty," thought the butterfly; "charming little lasses; but they are rather formal."
Who acts: crocus, pretty · What happens: be, think · To what, where: butterfly · 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 (crocus, pretty), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pretty | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pretty | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pretty | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 pretty | advmod |
| 5 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pretty | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pretty | punct |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 butterfly | det |
| 10 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 lasses | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 lasses | punct |
| 13 | charming | charming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lasses | amod |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lasses | amod |
| 15 | lasses | lass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 thought | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 formal | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 formal | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 formal | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 formal | cop |
| 20 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 21 formal | advmod |
| 21 | formal | formal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thought | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 formal | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 formal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | crocus | pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | pretty | the butterfly | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent butterfly=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | crocus | formal property | tree rules |
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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