Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 36

For the heart asks for fragrance, even when it is no longer young; and there is very little of that to be found in the dahlias or the dry chrysanthemums; therefore the butterfly turned to the mint on the ground.

Who acts: fragrance, that, butterfly · What happens: ask, be, find, turn · To what, where: dahlias, ground

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 (fragrance, that, 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 heart	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 heart	det
3	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	obl
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 fragrance	case
6	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 young	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	14 young	advmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 young	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 young	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 young	cop
12	no	no	ADV	_	13 longer	advmod
13	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 young	advmod
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 asks	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 is	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 is	cc
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 is	expl
18	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asks	conj
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 little	advmod
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 that	advmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 that	case
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 is	nsubj
23	to	to	PART	_	25 found	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 found	aux:pass
25	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 is	advcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 dahlias	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dahlias	det
28	dahlias	dahlia	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 found	obl
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 chrysanthemums	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 chrysanthemums	det
31	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 chrysanthemums	amod
32	chrysanthemums	chrysanthemum	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 dahlias	conj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 turned	punct
34	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	37 turned	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 butterfly	det
36	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 turned	nsubj
37	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asks	conj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 mint	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 mint	det
40	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 turned	obl
41	on	on	ADP	_	43 ground	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 ground	det
43	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 turned	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present			for the heart; for fragrance	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	fragrance		long, young property	tree rules
3	be	present	that	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	to-infinitive · passive	that not said here	the dahlias or the dry chrysanthemums		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»
5	turn	past	the butterfly	the ground	to the mint; therefore property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to mint=Source on ground=Trajectory

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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