Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 48
It was not the weather for flying about in summer clothes; but fortunately the butterfly was not out in it.
Who acts: bachelor, weather, butterfly · What happens: not be, fly · To what, where: weather, summer clothes, bachelor
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 (bachelor, weather, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 weather | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 weather | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 weather | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 weather | det |
| 5 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 flying | mark |
| 7 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 weather | acl |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 flying | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 clothes | case |
| 10 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clothes | compound |
| 11 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 flying | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 out | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 out | cc |
| 14 | fortunately | fortunately | ADV | _ | 16 butterfly | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 butterfly | det |
| 16 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 out | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 out | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 out | advmod |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 weather | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 out | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 weather | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | bachelor | the weather | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly | gerund | the weather not said here | summer clothes | about property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in clothes=Location | |||
| 3 | not is | past | the butterfly | bachelor | out 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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