Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 3
The butterfly did not like to take too much trouble, so he flew off on a visit to the daisies.
Who acts: butterfly · What happens: not like, take, fly off · To what, where: much trouble, visit
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), 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 | 2 butterfly | det |
| 2 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 like | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 like | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 like | xcomp |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 trouble | amod |
| 10 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flew | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 flew | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 flew | nsubj |
| 14 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | parataxis |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 flew | compound:prt |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 visit | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 visit | det |
| 18 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flew | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 daisies | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 daisies | det |
| 21 | daisies | daisy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 flew | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | past · do-support | the butterfly | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the butterfly not said here | much trouble | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fly off | past | butterfly | a visit | to the daisies | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on visit=Location |
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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