Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 40
The green leaf floated away on the brook, and the butterfly flew with it, for he was fastened to it, and could not get away.
Who acts: green leaf · What happens: float away, fly, fasten, not get away · To what, where: green leaf, brook, butterfly
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 (green leaf), 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 leaf | det |
| 2 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 leaf | amod |
| 3 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 leaf | acl |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 floated | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 brook | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 brook | det |
| 8 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 floated | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 flew | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 flew | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 butterfly | det |
| 12 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flew | nsubj |
| 13 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 flew | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fastened | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 fastened | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fastened | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fastened | aux:pass |
| 20 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 flew | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fastened | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 get | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 get | cc |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 get | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 get | advmod |
| 27 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 flew | conj |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 get | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float away | participle | the green leaf not said here | the brook | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on brook=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | fly | past | the green leaf | with brook | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fasten | past · passive | butterfly | brook | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to it=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | not get away | could | the green leaf not said here | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=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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