Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 22
Butterflies, cockchafers, dragon-flies, everything that could fly came to pay a visit.
Who acts: Butterflies · What happens: fly, come, pay · To what, where: visit
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Butterflies), 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 | Butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 came | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cockchafers | punct |
| 3 | cockchafers | cockchafer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Butterflies | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 flies | punct |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flies | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 dragon | punct |
| 7 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Butterflies | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 everything | punct |
| 9 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 flies | conj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 fly | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 fly | aux |
| 12 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 everything | acl:relcl |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 pay | mark |
| 15 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 came | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 visit | det |
| 17 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pay | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | could | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | come | past | Butterflies and cockchafers and dragon flies | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pay | to-infinitive | Butterflies and cockchafers and dragon flies not said here | a visit | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset |
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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