Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 58

The butterfly flapped its wings, and flew a little bit farther, and then returned fatigued to sit upon the grave-stone, as if to point out what grew there.

Who acts: butterfly · What happens: flap, fly, return, fatigue, sit, point out · To what, where: wings, grave stone

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 butterfly	det
2	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flapped	nsubj
3	flapped	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wings	nmod:poss
5	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flapped	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 flew	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 flew	cc
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flapped	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bit	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bit	amod
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 farther	obl:unmarked
12	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 flew	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 returned	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 returned	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 returned	advmod
16	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 flew	conj
17	fatigued	fatigue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 returned	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 sit	mark
19	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 fatigued	xcomp
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 stone	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stone	det
22	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stone	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 grave	punct
24	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sit	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 point	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 point	mark
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 point	mark
28	to	to	PART	_	29 point	mark
29	point	point	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sit	conj
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 point	compound:prt
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 grew	nsubj
32	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 point	ccomp
33	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 grew	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flap	past	the butterfly	butterfly's wings				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
2	fly	past					far property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	return	past				then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fatigue	participle						tree rules
5	sit	to-infinitive			the grave stone			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon stone=Location
6	point out a condition, not said to happen	to-infinitive						tree rules
7	grow	past			there			vn appear-48.1.1 «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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