Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 57
As he came nearer, he noticed a living butterfly sitting on the forehead of the sculptured councillor.
Who acts: man, living butterfly · What happens: come, notice, sit, sculpture · To what, where: living butterfly, forehead
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, living 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 came | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 noticed | advcl |
| 4 | nearer | near | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 noticed | nsubj |
| 7 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 butterfly | det |
| 9 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 butterfly | amod |
| 10 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 noticed | obj |
| 11 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 butterfly | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 forehead | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forehead | det |
| 14 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sitting | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 councillor | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 councillor | det |
| 17 | sculptured | sculpture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 councillor | amod |
| 18 | councillor | councillor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forehead | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | man | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | notice | past | man | a living butterfly | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer butterfly=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sit | gerund | a living butterfly not said here | the forehead of the sculptured councillor | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on forehead=Location | ||||
| 4 | sculpture | participle | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: 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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