Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 59
"Ah," thought the butterfly, "one can't very well trust these plants in pots; they have too much to do with mankind."
Who acts: butterfly, one, trust · What happens: think, not trust, have, do · To what, where: much · 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, one, trust), 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 thought | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 thought | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 butterfly | det |
| 7 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 trust | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 trust | punct |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 trust | nsubj |
| 11 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 trust | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 trust | advmod |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 well | advmod |
| 14 | well | well | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 trust | amod |
| 15 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 plants | det |
| 17 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 trust | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 pots | case |
| 19 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 plants | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | conj |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 have | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 much | acl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 mankind | case |
| 28 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 do | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the butterfly | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not trust in a quote | can | one | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | trust | much | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | with mankind | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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