--- title: After that they took colors from the butterfly's wing, and sprinkled… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: After that they took colors from the butterfly's wing, and sprinkled them over the white drapery which gleamed as if covered with flowers and diamonds, so that I could not recognize my sausage skewer at all. Who acts: spiders, white drapery, I. 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C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spiders, white drapery, I), 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:pg27200:179:36 # text = After that they took colors from the butterfly's wing, and sprinkled them over the white drapery which gleamed as if covered with flowers and diamonds, so that I could not recognize my sausage skewer at all. 1 After after ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 obl _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 colors color NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 sprinkled sprinkle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 over over ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 drapery drapery NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 gleamed gleam VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 xcomp _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 diamonds diamond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 34 mark _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 fixed _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 recognize recognize VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 sausage sausage NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 skewer skewer NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | spiders *= spider* | colors | | the butterfly's wing | after that | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent color=Theme from wing=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **sprinkle** | past | spiders *= spider* *not said here* | spiders *= spider* | | the white drapery | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme over drapery=Destination | | 3 | **gleam** | past | the white drapery | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **cover** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | the white drapery *not said here* | | | | | with flowers and diamonds | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme | | 5 | **not** **recognize** | could | I | my sausage skewer | | all | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skewer=Stimulus | 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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/37/) - ↑ back to [What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/)