Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast, sentence 15

His ring: turned once, Afrits and Djinns came out of the earth; twice, Fairies came down from the sky; three times, «the very great angel Azrael of the Sword» came, dressed as a water-carrier, with the news of the three worlds.

Who acts: ring, Fairies, great angel · What happens: turn, come out, come down, come, dress · To what, where: ring, earth, sky

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 (ring, Fairies, great angel), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 ring	nmod:poss
2	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct
4	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 ring	acl
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 turned	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Afrits	punct
7	Afrits	afrit	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Djinns	cc
9	Djinns	djinn	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 Afrits	conj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	out	out	ADP	_	14 earth	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 earth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 earth	det
14	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
16	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 came	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
18	Fairies	fairy	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
20	down	down	ADV	_	19 came	advmod
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 sky	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sky	det
23	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 times	punct
25	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 times	nummod
26	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 came	obl:unmarked
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 came	punct
28	«	«	PUNCT	_	32 angel	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 angel	det
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 great	advmod
31	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 angel	amod
32	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 came	nsubj
33	Azrael	Azrael	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 angel	appos
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 Sword	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Sword	det
36	Sword	sword	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Azrael	nmod
37	»	»	PUNCT	_	33 Azrael	punct
38	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 dressed	punct
40	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 came	advcl
41	as	as	ADP	_	45 carrier	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 carrier	det
43	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 carrier	compound
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 water	punct
45	carrier	carrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 dressed	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 news	punct
47	with	with	ADP	_	49 news	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 news	det
49	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 came	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	53 worlds	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 worlds	det
52	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 worlds	nummod
53	worlds	world	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 news	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	participle		Suleiman's ring not said here			once property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	come out	past	Suleiman's ring	the earth				vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient earth=Result
3	come down	past	Fairies		the sky		down, twice property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sky=Initial_Location
4	come	past	the great angel			time	with the news of the three worlds	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	dress	participle	the great angel not said here				as a water carrier	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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:15.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast/15/