Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 55
"Now I am perched on a stalk, like the flowers," said the butterfly. "
Who acts: butterfly · What happens: perch, say · To what, where: butterfly, stalk · 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 perched | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 perched | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 perched | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 perched | aux:pass |
| 5 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 said | ccomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 stalk | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stalk | det |
| 8 | stalk | stalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 perched | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flowers | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 flowers | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flowers | det |
| 12 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 perched | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 perched | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 perched | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 butterfly | det |
| 17 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perch in a quote | present · passive | the butterfly = butterfly | a stalk | now | like the flowers | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on stalk=Destination | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the butterfly | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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