Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast, sentence 31

Real life: a butterfly weighs less than a gram, so its stamp really could not bend a blade of grass; butterflies even taste with their feet, which have taste sensors on them.

Who acts: butterfly, stamp, butterflies, feet · What happens: weigh, not bend, taste, have · To what, where: gram, blade, taste sensors

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 (butterfly, stamp, butterflies, feet), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 life	amod
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taste	dislocated
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 weighs	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 butterfly	det
5	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 weighs	nsubj
6	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 taste	parataxis
7	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	10 gram	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	7 less	fixed
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 gram	det
10	gram	gram	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 weighs	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stamp	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 stamp	advmod
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 stamp	nmod:poss
14	stamp	stamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bend	nsubj
15	really	really	ADV	_	18 bend	advmod
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 bend	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 bend	advmod
18	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 weighs	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 blade	det
20	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bend	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 grass	case
22	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 blade	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 butterflies	punct
24	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 taste	nsubj
25	even	even	ADV	_	26 taste	advmod
26	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 feet	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 feet	nmod:poss
29	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 taste	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 have	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 have	nsubj
32	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 feet	acl:relcl
33	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sensors	compound
34	sensors	sensor	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 have	obj
35	on	on	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sensors	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	weigh	present	a butterfly	a gram		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme gram=Value
2	not bend	could	Butterfly's stamp	a blade of grass		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent blade=Material
3	taste	infinitive	butterflies		with Queens's feet; Real life dislocated	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	have	present	Queens's feet	taste sensors	on Queens = queen	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sensor=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:31.

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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