Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast, sentence 6

He would not use his ring on the quarrelling Queens, because that would be showing off, so he walked alone in the garden.

Who acts: Balkis, that · What happens: not use, show off, walk · To what, where: ring, garden

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, that), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 use	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 use	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 use	advmod
4	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ring	nmod:poss
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 use	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 Queens	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Queens	det
9	quarrelling	quarrelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Queens	compound
10	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 showing	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 showing	mark
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 showing	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 showing	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 showing	aux
16	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 use	advcl
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 showing	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 walked	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 walked	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 walked	nsubj
21	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 use	parataxis
22	alone	alone	ADV	_	21 walked	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 garden	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 garden	det
25	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 walked	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 use	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not use	would	Balkis	Balkis's ring		on the quarrelling Queens	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient
2	show off	would · progressive	that				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	walk	past	Balkis		the garden	alone property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory

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:6.

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): 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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