Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 22
He next flew to the anemones; these were rather sour to his taste.
Who acts: pretty, these · What happens: fly, be, taste
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 (pretty, these), 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 | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | next | next | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 anemones | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 anemones | det |
| 6 | anemones | anemone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flew | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 sour | punct |
| 8 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 sour | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sour | cop |
| 10 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 11 sour | advmod |
| 11 | sour | sour | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flew | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 taste | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 taste | nmod:poss |
| 14 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sour | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | pretty | to the anemones result; next property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to anemone=Result | ||||
| 2 | is | past | these | to pretty's taste; sour property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | taste | pretty | nom taste «cognition 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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