Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 40

Then, if they behave well, they obtain permission to fly about during the day, instead of being obliged to sit still on their stems at home, and so in time their leaves become real wings.

Who acts: butterflies, leaves · What happens: behave, obtain, fly, oblige, sit, become · To what, where: permission, stems, real wings

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 (butterflies, leaves), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 obtain	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 behave	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 behave	nsubj
5	behave	behave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 obtain	advcl
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 behave	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 behave	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 obtain	nsubj
9	obtain	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 obtain	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 fly	mark
12	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 permission	acl
13	about	about	ADV	_	12 fly	advmod
14	during	during	ADP	_	16 day	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fly	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 obliged	punct
18	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	21 obliged	mark
19	of	of	ADP	_	18 instead	fixed
20	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 obliged	aux:pass
21	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 obtain	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 sit	mark
23	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 obliged	xcomp
24	still	still	ADV	_	23 sit	advmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 stems	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 stems	nmod:poss
27	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sit	obl
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 home	case
29	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sit	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 become	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 become	cc
32	so	so	ADV	_	37 become	advmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 time	case
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 become	obl
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 leaves	nmod:poss
36	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 become	nsubj
37	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 obtain	conj
38	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 wings	amod
39	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 become	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 obtain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	behave a condition, not said to happen	present	butterflies = butterfly				well property	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
2	obtain	present	butterflies = butterfly	permission		then		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset permission=Theme
3	fly	to-infinitive	butterflies = butterfly not said here	permission not said here		day	about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	oblige	gerund · passive	butterflies = butterfly not said here					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result
5	sit	to-infinitive	butterflies = butterfly not said here		butterflies's stems	still	at home	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stem=Location
6	become	present	butterflies's leaves	real wings		time		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	stem		butterflies = butterfly					nom stem «communication transitive»: poss=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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