Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 42
Gay colors were to be seen here, and a butterfly, too, was flitting by.
What happens: see, flit · To what, where: Gay colors
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 colors | amod |
| 2 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seen | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 seen | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 seen | aux:pass |
| 6 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 seen | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 butterfly | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 butterfly | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 butterfly | det |
| 11 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seen | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 too | punct |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 butterfly | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flitting | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 flitting | aux |
| 16 | flitting | flit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 seen | advcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 flitting | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | Gay colors | here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | flit | past · progressive | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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