Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast, sentence 2

Yet he was not proud: once he tried to feed all the animals in the world in one day, and a single Animal from the sea ate it all in three mouthfuls and asked when dinner would be ready.

Who acts: ring, single Animal, dinner · What happens: not be, try, feed, eat, ask, be · To what, where: animals, world, sea, three mouthfuls

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, single Animal, dinner), 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	5 proud	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 proud	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 proud	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 proud	advmod
5	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 tried	punct
7	once	once	SCONJ	_	9 tried	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tried	nsubj
9	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 proud	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 feed	mark
11	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tried	xcomp
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 animals	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 animals	det
14	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 feed	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 world	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 world	det
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 animals	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 day	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 day	nummod
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ate	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ate	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 Animal	det
24	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Animal	amod
25	Animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ate	nsubj
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 sea	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sea	det
28	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Animal	nmod
29	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 proud	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ate	obj
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 it	dep
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 mouthfuls	case
33	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 mouthfuls	nummod
34	mouthfuls	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 ate	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 asked	cc
36	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 ate	conj
37	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	41 ready	advmod
38	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 ready	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 ready	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 ready	cop
41	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 asked	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 proud	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	ring				proud property	tree rules
2	try	past	ring					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	feed not said to happen	to-infinitive	ring not said here	all animals	the world	day		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent animal=Value in world=Location
4	eat	past	a single Animal from the sea	sea	three mouthfuls			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	ask speech: ask	past	a single Animal from the sea not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	would	dinner				ready property	tree rules

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:2.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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