Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast, sentence 5
Only Balkis, his Head Queen, beautiful and nearly as wise as he, never quarrelled; she loved him and was sorry for him.
Who acts: Balkis, most · What happens: not quarrel, love, be · To what, where: Balkis
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 (Balkis, most), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 Balkis | advmod |
| 2 | Balkis | Balkis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 quarrelled | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Head | punct |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Balkis | appos |
| 6 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Head | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Balkis | punct |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Balkis | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wise | cc |
| 10 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 12 wise | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 wise | advmod |
| 12 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 beautiful | conj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 he | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wise | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 quarrelled | punct |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 quarrelled | advmod |
| 17 | quarrelled | quarrel | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 loved | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 loved | nsubj |
| 20 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 quarrelled | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 loved | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sorry | cc |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sorry | cop |
| 24 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 loved | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sorry | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 quarrelled | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not quarrel | past | Balkis | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | love | past | most | Balkis | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | most not said here | for Balkis; sorry 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:5.
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): no change. 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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