--- title: Think! the Caterpillar is changed, and turns into a beautiful butter… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Think! the Caterpillar is changed, and turns into a beautiful butterfly; the Stork family flies over mountains and seas, to the distant Africa, and yet finds the shortest way home to the same country--to the same roof. Who acts: you, Stork family. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Anderse --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/194/175/) [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 Toad](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/194/) / 175 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 175 Think! the Caterpillar is changed, and turns into a beautiful butterfly; the Stork family flies over mountains and seas, to the distant Africa, and yet finds the shortest way home to the same country--to the same roof. **Who acts:** you, Stork family · **What happens:** think, change, turn, fly, find · **To what, where:** Caterpillar, mountains, shortest way · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Stork family), 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:pg27200:194:175 # text = Think! the Caterpillar is changed, and turns into a beautiful butterfly; the Stork family flies over mountains and seas, to the distant Africa, and yet finds the shortest way home to the same country--to the same roof. 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Caterpillar Caterpillar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 Stork Stork PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 flies fly VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 19 over over ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 seas sea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 yet yet ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 shortest short ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 34 amod _ _ 34 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 home home ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 -- -- PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **change** | present · passive | | the Caterpillar | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **turn** | present | | | | | | into a beautiful butterfly *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into butterfly=Result | | 4 | **fly** | present | the Stork family | | | mountains and seas | | to the distant Africa | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Location | | 5 | **find** | present | the Stork family *not said here* | the shortest way | | | yet | to the same country; to the same roof | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | 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 174](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/194/174/) - next →: [sentence 176](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/194/176/) - ↑ back to [The Toad](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/194/)