Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 5

Lovers pluck off the leaves, and as they pluck each leaf, they ask a question about their lovers; thus: "Does he or she love me?--Ardently?

Who acts: Lovers, French · What happens: pluck, ask, love · To what, where: leaf, question, flowers · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Lovers, French), 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	Lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pluck	nsubj
2	pluck	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	5 leaves	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 leaves	det
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pluck	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ask	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ask	cc
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 pluck	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pluck	nsubj
10	pluck	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 ask	advcl
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 leaf	det
12	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pluck	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pluck	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ask	nsubj
15	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 pluck	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 question	det
17	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ask	obj
18	about	about	ADP	_	20 lovers	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 lovers	nmod:poss
20	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 question	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 pluck	punct
22	thus	thus	ADV	_	2 pluck	advmod
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 love	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 love	punct
25	Does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 love	aux
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 love	nsubj
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 love	cc
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 love	nsubj
29	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pluck	parataxis
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 love	obj
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 love	punct
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 Ardently	punct
33	Ardently	ardently	ADV	_	29 love	advmod
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 pluck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pluck	present	Lovers		off the leaves; thus property	tree rules
2	pluck	present	Lovers = lover	each leaf		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
3	ask speech: ask	present	Lovers = lover	a question	about Lovers's lovers	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent question=Recipient about lover=Topic
4	love in a quote	present · do-support	French	flowers = flower	ardently property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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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