Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 53

Then he flew against the window-pane, and was seen and admired by those in the room, who caught him, and stuck him on a pin, in a box of curiosities.

Who acts: butterfly, room · What happens: fly, see, admire, catch, stick · To what, where: window pane, butterfly, pin

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, room), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 flew	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	against	against	ADP	_	8 pane	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pane	det
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pane	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 window	punct
8	pane	pane	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seen	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 seen	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	aux:pass
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 flew	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 admired	cc
14	admired	admire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 seen	conj
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 those	case
16	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 admired	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 room	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 room	det
19	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 those	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 caught	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 caught	nsubj
22	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 room	acl:relcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 caught	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stuck	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 stuck	cc
26	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 stuck	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 pin	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 pin	det
30	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stuck	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 box	punct
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 box	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 box	det
34	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stuck	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 curiosities	case
36	curiosities	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 box	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	butterfly		the window pane	then		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent against pane=Location
2	see	past · passive	butterfly not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
3	admire	participle	butterfly not said here				by those	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	catch	past	the room	butterfly				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	stick	past	butterfly not said here	butterfly	a pin		in a box of curiosities	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on pin=Destination

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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