Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast, sentence 24

The Butterfly's boast: «if I stamped with my foot all Suleiman-bin-Daoud's Palace and this garden here would immediately vanish in a clap of thunder.»

Who acts: boast, all, Butterfly · What happens: stamp, vanish, boast, clap · To what, where: clap, thunder · 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 (boast, all, Butterfly), 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 Butterfly	det
2	Butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boast	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Butterfly	case
4	boast	boast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stamped	nsubj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 stamped	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 stamped	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 stamped	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 stamped	nsubj
9	stamped	stamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 foot	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 foot	nmod:poss
12	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stamped	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 vanish	nsubj
14	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 all	nmod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Suleiman	punct
16	bin	Bin	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Suleiman	flat
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 bin	punct
18	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Palace	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 Daoud	case
20	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Suleiman	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 garden	cc
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 garden	det
23	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Suleiman	appos
24	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 garden	advmod
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 vanish	aux
26	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	27 vanish	advmod
27	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 stamped	ccomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 clap	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 clap	det
30	clap	clap	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 vanish	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 thunder	case
32	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 clap	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stamped	punct
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 boast	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stamp in a quote	past	the Butterfly's boast			with my foot	tree rules
2	vanish in a quote	would	all		a clap of thunder	immediately property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	boast		the Butterfly				nom boast «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
4	clap in a quote			thunder			nom clap «event transitive»: of=patient

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:24.

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. 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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