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title: The Rose was not indifferent, for the Butterfly's wings were powdere… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rose was not indifferent, for the Butterfly's wings were powdered in a charming pattern of gold and silver. Who acts: Rose, gold. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rose and the Butterfly, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Rose and the Butterfly, sentence 2

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The Rose was not indifferent, for the Butterfly's wings were powdered in a charming pattern of gold and silver.

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**Who acts:** Rose, gold · **What happens:** not be, powder, pattern · **To what, where:** wings, charming pattern

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rose and the Butterfly. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rose, gold), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:113:2
# text = The Rose was not indifferent, for the Butterfly's wings were powdered in a charming pattern of gold and silver.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rose	Rose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	indifferent	indifferent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	powdered	powder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | the Rose |  |  |  |  | indifferent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **powder** | past · passive |  | the Butterfly's wings |  | a charming pattern of gold and silver |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **pattern** |  | gold |  |  |  |  |  | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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