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title: A graceful little white butterfly constantly fluttered round her, an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A graceful little white butterfly constantly fluttered round her, and at last alighted on the leaf. Who acts: graceful little white butterfly. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 36

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A graceful little white butterfly constantly fluttered round her, and at last alighted on the leaf.

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**Who acts:** graceful little white butterfly · **What happens:** flutter, alight · **To what, where:** last

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (graceful little white 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:pg27200:79:36
# text = A graceful little white butterfly constantly fluttered round her, and at last alighted on the leaf.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	constantly	constantly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	fluttered	flutter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	round	round	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
14	alighted	alight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flutter** | past | a graceful little white butterfly |  |  |  |  | round Tiny; constantly *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **alight** | participle | a graceful little white butterfly *not said here* |  |  | last |  | on the leaf | 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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