Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast, sentence 16

The Animal from the sea was «the smallest of thirty thousand brothers»; it said «do you really call that a dinner?

Who acts: Animal, angel, you · What happens: be, say, call · To what, where: that · 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 (Animal, angel, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Animal	det
2	Animal	Animal	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 smallest	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Animal	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 smallest	cop
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 smallest	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 smallest	det
9	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 brothers	case
11	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 thousand	compound
12	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 brothers	nummod
13	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 smallest	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 smallest	punct
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 smallest	parataxis
18	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 do	punct
19	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 call	aux
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 call	nsubj
21	really	really	ADV	_	22 call	advmod
22	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 call	obj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 dinner	det
25	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 call	xcomp
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 smallest	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
indirect: yes
teacher: changed act=evaluate, indirect=1, polarity=neg

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	the Animal from the sea		of thousand brothers; small property	tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	angel			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	call in a quote	present · do-support	you	that		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=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:16.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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