Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 130
The summer queen was gone, but a butterfly, the last of the year, flew through the cold air.
Who acts: summer queen, butterfly · What happens: be, fly · To what, where: cold air
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (summer queen, 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 | 3 queen | det |
| 2 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 queen | compound |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | cop |
| 5 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 butterfly | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 butterfly | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 butterfly | det |
| 9 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 last | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 last | det |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 butterfly | amod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 year | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 year | det |
| 15 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 last | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 flew | punct |
| 17 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 butterfly | acl:relcl |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 air | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 air | det |
| 20 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 air | amod |
| 21 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flew | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the summer queen | a butterfly obl; gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | a butterfly not said here | the cold air | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location |
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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