Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast, sentence 26

What made you tell that awful fib to your wife?»

Who acts: you · What happens: make, tell · To what, where: you, awful fib, wife · 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 (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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	that	that	DET	PronType=Dem	7 fib	det
6	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fib	amod
7	fib	fib	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 wife	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		you					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	that awful fib	your wife				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent fib=Topic to wife=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:26.

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, R6-punct-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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