Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 51
He could exist here, he said, well enough.
Who acts: butterfly · What happens: exist, say · 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 (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 | 3 exist | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 exist | aux |
| 3 | exist | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 exist | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 exist | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 well | punct |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 said | advmod |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 9 well | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 exist | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | could | butterfly | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | butterfly | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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