Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 37
Have you not seen those beautiful red, white, and yellow butterflies, that look like flowers?
Who acts: you, yellow butterflies · What happens: not see, look · To what, where: those
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, yellow 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 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 seen | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 seen | advmod |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 seen | obj |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 red | amod |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 those | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 white | punct |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 red | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 look | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 look | cc |
| 12 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 butterflies | amod |
| 13 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 look | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 look | punct |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 look | nsubj |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 red | parataxis |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 flowers | case |
| 18 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 look | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | present · perfect | you | those | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | look | present | yellow butterflies | like flowers | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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