Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 1

She calls the Butterfly's Wife to her finger and gives her a plan: next time he boasts, take him at his word and dare him to stamp.

Who acts: Balkis, Butterfly · What happens: call, give, boast, take, dare, stamp · To what, where: Wife, finger, plan, Balkis, Butterfly, word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends» 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, Butterfly), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 calls	nsubj
2	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Butterfly	det
4	Butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Wife	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Butterfly	case
6	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calls	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 finger	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 finger	nmod:poss
9	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calls	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gives	cc
11	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 calls	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gives	iobj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 plan	det
14	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gives	obj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 boasts	punct
16	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 time	amod
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 boasts	obl:unmarked
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 boasts	nsubj
19	boasts	boast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 take	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 plan	parataxis
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 take	obj
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 word	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 word	nmod:poss
25	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dare	cc
27	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 take	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 dare	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 stamp	mark
30	stamp	stamp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 dare	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 calls	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	call	present	Balkis	the Butterfly's Wife	Balkis's finger			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Topic to finger=Recipient
2	give	present	Balkis not said here	a plan	Balkis			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient plan=Theme
3	boast speech: other	present	Butterfly				time	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	take	infinitive		Butterfly		Butterfly's word		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at word=Asset
5	dare	infinitive		Butterfly				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	stamp	to-infinitive						vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	word		Butterfly					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:097-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends.lesson:1.

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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