Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 26

The pea-blossom pleased him most of all; she was white and red, graceful and slender, and belonged to those domestic maidens who have a pretty appearance, and can yet be useful in the kitchen.

Who acts: wind, domestic maidens · What happens: be, belong, have · To what, where: pretty appearance, kitchen

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 (wind, domestic maidens), 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	4 blossom	det
2	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blossom	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 pea	punct
4	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pleased	nsubj
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pleased	nsubj
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 pleased	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 most	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 white	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 white	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 white	cop
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pleased	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 red	cc
15	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 white	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 graceful	punct
17	graceful	graceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 white	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 slender	cc
19	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 graceful	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 belonged	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 belonged	cc
22	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleased	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 maidens	case
24	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 maidens	det
25	domestic	domestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 maidens	amod
26	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 belonged	obl
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 have	nsubj
28	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 maidens	acl:relcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 appearance	det
30	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 appearance	amod
31	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 useful	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 useful	cc
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 useful	aux
35	yet	yet	ADV	_	37 useful	advmod
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 useful	cop
37	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pleased	conj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 kitchen	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 kitchen	det
40	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 useful	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	wind				white property	tree rules
2	be		wind not said here					tree rules
3	be		wind not said here					tree rules
4	belong	past					to that domestic maidens	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
5	have	present	that domestic maidens	a pretty appearance				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Patient
6	is	can			the kitchen	yet	useful 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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