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title: "Ah," thought the butterfly, "one can't very well trust these plants… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Ah," thought the butterfly, "one can't very well trust these plants in pots; they have too much to do with mankind." Who acts: butterfly, one, trust. 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 59

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"Ah," thought the butterfly, "one can't very well trust these plants in pots; they have too much to do with mankind."

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**Who acts:** butterfly, one, trust · **What happens:** think, not trust, have, do · **To what, where:** much · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (butterfly, one, trust), 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:pg27200:15:59
# text = "Ah," thought the butterfly, "one can't very well trust these plants in pots; they have too much to do with mankind."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nsubj	_	_
11	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	well	well	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the butterfly |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **trust** *in a quote* | can | one |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | trust | much |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with mankind | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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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