--- title: The butterfly came also to Marguerite to inquire, but he did not plu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The butterfly came also to Marguerite to inquire, but he did not pluck off her leaves; he pressed a kiss on each of them, for he thought there was always more to be done by kindness. Who acts: butterfly, kindness. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Butterfl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/15/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Butterfly](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/15/) / 11 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 11 The butterfly came also to Marguerite to inquire, but he did not pluck off her leaves; he pressed a kiss on each of them, for he thought there was always more to be done by kindness. **Who acts:** butterfly, kindness · **What happens:** come, inquire, not pluck off, press, think, be · **To what, where:** Marguerite, leaves, kiss, each, more · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, 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 (butterfly, kindness), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:15:11 # text = The butterfly came also to Marguerite to inquire, but he did not pluck off her leaves; he pressed a kiss on each of them, for he thought there was always more to be done by kindness. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Marguerite Marguerite PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 inquire inquire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 pluck pluck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 15 off off ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 pressed press VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 kiss kiss NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 20 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 for for SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 31 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 32 expl _ _ 32 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 33 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 34 advmod _ _ 34 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 obj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 advcl _ _ 38 by by ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the butterfly | | | Marguerite | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to marguerite=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **inquire** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the butterfly *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **pluck off** | past · do-support | butterfly | Marguerite's leaves | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | | 4 | **press** | past | butterfly | a kiss | | each | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | butterfly | more | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent more=Attribute clause=Theme | | 6 | **be** | past | | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **do** | to-infinitive · passive | kindness | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/15/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/15/12/) - ↑ back to [The Butterfly](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/15/)