--- title: The butterfly flew with him from tree to tree and from field to fiel… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The butterfly flew with him from tree to tree and from field to field, and at last returned to the court, where the king and nobility all strove to catch him; but at last poor Tom fell from his seat into a watering-pot, in which he was almost drowned. Who acts: butterfly, king. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (butterfly, king), 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:pg7439:28:56 # text = The butterfly flew with him from tree to tree and from field to field, and at last returned to the court, where the king and nobility all strove to catch him; but at last poor Tom fell from his seat into a watering-pot, in which he was almost drowned. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obl _ _ 19 returned return VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 30 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 nobility nobility NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 all all ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 strove strive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 but but CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 38 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 40 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 41 from from ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 into into ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 46 watering watering NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 47 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 50 in in ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 55 obl _ _ 52 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj:pass _ _ 53 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 55 aux:pass _ _ 54 almost almost ADV RB _ 55 advmod _ _ 55 drowned drown VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | past | the butterfly | | | tree | | with Tom; to tree and field to field | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from tree=Initial\_Location to tree=Destination | | 2 | **return** | participle | the butterfly *not said here* | | | last | | to the court *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to court=Result | | 3 | **strive** | past | the king and nobility | | | | | all *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **catch** | to-infinitive | the king and nobility *not said here* | king | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **fall** | past | the butterfly *not said here* | | | last poor Tom | | from king's seat; into a watering pot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from seat=Initial\_Location into pot=Destination | | 6 | **drown** | past · passive | | king | | | | almost *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/28/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/28/57/) - ↑ back to [The History of Tom Thumb](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/28/)