Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast, sentence 10
Suleiman laughs till the tree shakes and calls the little Butterfly to his finger.
Who acts: Suleiman, tree · What happens: laugh, shake, call · To what, where: little Butterfly, finger · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Suleiman, tree), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 laughs | nsubj |
| 2 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 shakes | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shakes | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shakes | nsubj |
| 6 | shakes | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 laughs | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 calls | cc |
| 8 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 shakes | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Butterfly | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Butterfly | amod |
| 11 | Butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 calls | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 finger | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 finger | nmod:poss |
| 14 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 calls | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laughs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | Suleiman | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | shake | present | tree | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | call | present | tree not said here | the little Butterfly | tree's finger | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent butterfly=Topic to finger=Recipient |
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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:096-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast.lesson:10.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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