Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 32

Fly about as a butterfly, indeed! what of that.

Who acts: you · What happens: fly

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	about	about	ADV	_	1 Fly	advmod
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 butterfly	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 butterfly	det
5	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fly	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct
7	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	9 what	advmod
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Fly	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 that	case
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 what	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	imperative	you not said here					as a butterfly; about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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