The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 108
A beautiful little white butterfly fluttered above her, and at last settled on the leaf.
What happens: flutter, settle · To what, where: beautiful little white butterfly, last
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | beautiful | beautiful | 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 | root | root |
| 6 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 butterfly | acl |
| 7 | above | above | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fluttered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 settled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 settled | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 settled | obl |
| 13 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 butterfly | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 leaf | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 leaf | det |
| 16 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 settled | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 butterfly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flutter | participle | a beautiful little white butterfly not said here | above leaf | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above she=Location | ||||
| 2 | settle | participle | last | on the leaf | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
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: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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