Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 52
"But it is not enough merely to exist," said he, "I need freedom, sunshine, and a little flower for a companion."
Who acts: shelter, butterfly · What happens: not be, exist, say, need · To what, where: freedom · 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 (shelter, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 enough | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 enough | cc |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 enough | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 enough | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 enough | advmod |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 7 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 6 enough | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 exist | mark |
| 9 | exist | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 enough | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 enough | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 enough | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 need | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 need | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 need | nsubj |
| 17 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 need | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sunshine | punct |
| 20 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 freedom | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 flower | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 flower | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 flower | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 flower | amod |
| 25 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 freedom | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 companion | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 companion | det |
| 28 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 flower | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 need | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 need | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | shelter | enough, merely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exist in a quote | to-infinitive | shelter not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | butterfly | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | need in a quote | present | butterfly | freedom and sunshine and a little flower for a companion | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot freedom=Theme |
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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