Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast, sentence 7
One day, after three weeks of quarrels, Balkis begs him to turn the ring and frighten the Queens, but he remembers the Animal from the sea and says no.
Who acts: Balkis · What happens: beg, turn, frighten, remember, say · To what, where: ring, Queens, Animal, sea, no. · 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 (Balkis), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 begs | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 weeks | punct |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 weeks | case |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 weeks | nummod |
| 6 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 begs | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 quarrels | case |
| 8 | quarrels | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 weeks | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 10 | Balkis | Balkis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 begs | nsubj |
| 11 | begs | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 begs | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 turn | mark |
| 14 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 begs | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ring | det |
| 16 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turn | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 frighten | cc |
| 18 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 turn | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Queens | det |
| 20 | Queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 frighten | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 remembers | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 remembers | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 remembers | nsubj |
| 24 | remembers | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 begs | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Animal | det |
| 26 | Animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 remembers | obj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 sea | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sea | det |
| 29 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 remembers | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 says | cc |
| 31 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 remembers | conj |
| 32 | no. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 31 says | obj |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | present | Balkis | ring | day; week | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | turn not said to happen | to-infinitive | Balkis not said here | the ring | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 3 | frighten | infinitive | Balkis not said here | the Queens | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus queen=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | remember | present | Balkis | the Animal | the sea | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | Balkis not said here | no. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no.=Topic |
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:7.
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): R8-pos-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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