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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 42

But especially was she sorry for the beautiful white butterfly which she had fastened to the leaf, for if he could not free himself he would die of hunger.

Who acts: Tiny, butterfly · What happens: be, fasten, die · To what, where: beautiful white 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 (Tiny, 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

ccadvmodcopnsubjcasedetamodamodoblnsubj:passnsubjauxacl:relclcasedetoblpunctmarkmarknsubjauxadvmodparataxisnsubjnsubjauxparataxiscaseoblpunctrootButCCONJespeciallyADVwasAUXshePRONsorryADJforADPtheDETbeautifulADJwhiteADJbutterflyNOUNwhichPRONshePRONhadAUXfastenedVERBtoADPtheDETleafNOUN,PUNCTforSCONJifSCONJhePRONcouldAUXnotPARTfreeADJhimselfPRONhePRONwouldAUXdieVERBofADPhungerNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_5 sorrycc
2especiallyespeciallyADV_5 sorryadvmod
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 sorrycop
4sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 sorrynsubj
5sorrysorryADJDegree=Posrootroot
6forforADP_10 butterflycase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 butterflydet
8beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos10 butterflyamod
9whitewhiteADJDegree=Pos10 butterflyamod
10butterflybutterflyNOUNNumber=Sing5 sorryobl
11whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel14 fastenednsubj:pass
12sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 fastenednsubj
13hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 fastenedaux
14fastenedfastenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass10 butterflyacl:relcl
15totoADP_17 leafcase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 leafdet
17leafleafNOUNNumber=Sing14 fastenedobl
18,,PUNCT_24 freepunct
19forforSCONJ_24 freemark
20ififSCONJ_24 freemark
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 freensubj
22couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin24 freeaux
23notnotPARTPolarity=Neg24 freeadvmod
24freefreeADJDegree=Pos5 sorryparataxis
25himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes28 diensubj
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 diensubj
27wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin28 dieaux
28diedieVERBVerbForm=Inf24 freeparataxis
29ofofADP_30 hungercase
30hungerhungerNOUNNumber=Sing28 dieobl
31..PUNCT_5 sorrypunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastTinyfor the beautiful white butterfly; especially, sorry propertytree rules
2fastenpast · perfect · passivethe beautiful white butterflyto the leafvn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to leaf=Co-Patient
3diewouldbutterflyof hungervn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer

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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