Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 36
A graceful little white butterfly constantly fluttered round her, and at last alighted on the leaf.
Who acts: graceful little white butterfly · What happens: flutter, alight · To what, where: last
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (graceful little white 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 butterfly | det |
| 2 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 butterfly | amod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 butterfly | amod |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 butterfly | amod |
| 5 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fluttered | nsubj |
| 6 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 7 fluttered | advmod |
| 7 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | round | round | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fluttered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 alighted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 alighted | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 last | case |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 alighted | obl |
| 14 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fluttered | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 leaf | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 leaf | det |
| 17 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 alighted | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fluttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flutter | past | a graceful little white butterfly | round Tiny; constantly property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | alight | participle | a graceful little white butterfly not said here | last | on the leaf | tree rules |
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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