Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast, sentence 11

Gently he asks why he told such a fib, since his stamping would not bend a blade of grass.

Who acts: Suleiman, stamping · What happens: ask, tell, not bend · To what, where: fib, blade · 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, stamping), 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	Gently	gently	ADV	_	3 asks	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 told	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asks	advcl
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	9 fib	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fib	det
9	fib	fib	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bend	punct
11	since	since	SCONJ	_	16 bend	mark
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 stamping	nmod:poss
13	stamping	stamping	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bend	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 bend	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 bend	advmod
16	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 blade	det
18	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bend	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 grass	case
20	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 blade	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Suleiman		gently property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	Suleiman	such fib		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fib=Recipient
3	not bend	would	Suleiman's stamping	a blade of grass		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent blade=Material

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:11.

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): R5-strong ×1. 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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