--- title: Then, if they behave well, they obtain permission to fly about durin… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Then, if they behave well, they obtain permission to fly about during the day, instead of being obliged to sit still on their stems at home, and so in time their leaves become real wings. Who acts: butterflies, leaves. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/73/40/) [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/) / [Little Ida's Flowers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/73/) / 40 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 40 Then, if they behave well, they obtain permission to fly about during the day, instead of being obliged to sit still on their stems at home, and so in time their leaves become real wings. **Who acts:** butterflies, leaves · **What happens:** behave, obtain, fly, oblige, sit, become · **To what, where:** permission, stems, real wings This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (butterflies, leaves), 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:pg27200:73:40 # text = Then, if they behave well, they obtain permission to fly about during the day, instead of being obliged to sit still on their stems at home, and so in time their leaves become real wings. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 if if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 behave behave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 6 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 obtain obtain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 permission permission NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 during during ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 21 mark _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 18 fixed _ _ 20 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 obliged oblige VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 still still ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 stems stem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 35 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 38 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **behave** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | butterflies *= butterfly* | | | | | well *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **obtain** | present | butterflies *= butterfly* | permission | | | then | | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset permission=Theme | | 3 | **fly** | to-infinitive | butterflies *= butterfly* *not said here* | permission *not said here* | | | day | about *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **oblige** | gerund · passive | butterflies *= butterfly* *not said here* | | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: clause=Result | | 5 | **sit** | to-infinitive | butterflies *= butterfly* *not said here* | | | butterflies's stems | still | at home | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stem=Location | | 6 | **become** | present | butterflies's leaves | real wings | | | time | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **stem** | | butterflies *= butterfly* | | | | | | nom stem «communication transitive»: poss=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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/73/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/73/41/) - ↑ back to [Little Ida's Flowers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/73/)