Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 44
He had been too long choosing, which is always a bad plan.
Who acts: butterfly · What happens: choose, be · To what, where: bad plan
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 choosing | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 choosing | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 choosing | aux |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 choosing | amod |
| 6 | choosing | choose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 plan | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 plan | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 plan | cop |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 plan | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 plan | det |
| 12 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 plan | amod |
| 13 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 choosing | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 choosing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past · perfect · progressive | butterfly | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a bad plan | always 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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