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title: It was not the weather for flying about in summer clothes; but fortu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was not the weather for flying about in summer clothes; but fortunately the butterfly was not out in it. Who acts: bachelor, weather, butterfly. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Butterfly, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 48

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It was not the weather for flying about in summer clothes; but fortunately the butterfly was not out in it.

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**Who acts:** bachelor, weather, butterfly · **What happens:** not be, fly · **To what, where:** weather, summer clothes, bachelor

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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 (bachelor, weather, butterfly), 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:pg27200:15:48
# text = It was not the weather for flying about in summer clothes; but fortunately the butterfly was not out in it.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	fortunately	fortunately	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	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 a** | past | bachelor | the weather |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund | the weather *not said here* |  |  | summer clothes |  | about *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in clothes=Location |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | the butterfly |  |  | bachelor |  | out *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «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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