Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 66
Butterflies fluttered around her, and close by were several ant-hills, each with its hundreds of busy little creatures moving quickly to and fro.
Who acts: Butterflies, busy little creatures · What happens: flutter, be, move, fro
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Butterflies, busy little creatures), 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 | Butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fluttered | nsubj |
| 2 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | around | around | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fluttered | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 close | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 close | cc |
| 7 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fluttered | parataxis |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 hills | case |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hills | cop |
| 10 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hills | amod |
| 11 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hills | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 ant | punct |
| 13 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 close | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 each | punct |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 hills | appos |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 hundreds | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hundreds | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 each | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 creatures | case |
| 20 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 creatures | amod |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 creatures | amod |
| 22 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hundreds | nmod |
| 23 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 creatures | acl |
| 24 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 23 moving | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 moving | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fro | cc |
| 27 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 moving | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fluttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flutter | past | Butterflies | around animal | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around she=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | by several ant hills | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | move | gerund | busy little creatures not said here | quickly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fro | infinitive | busy little creatures not said here | 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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