Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 14
They live happily ever after, and Kipling asks: «But wasn't it clever of Balkis?»
Who acts: troubles, Kipling, joke · What happens: live, ask, not be · 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 (troubles, Kipling, joke), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 2 live | advmod |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 after | advmod |
| 5 | after | after | ADV | _ | 2 live | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asks | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asks | cc |
| 8 | Kipling | Kipling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asks | nsubj |
| 9 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 live | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 asks | punct |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 clever | punct |
| 12 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 clever | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 clever | cop |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 clever | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 clever | nsubj |
| 16 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 asks | ccomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Balkis | case |
| 18 | Balkis | Balkis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 clever | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 clever | punct |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | troubles = trouble | after, happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | Kipling | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | past | joke | of Balkis; clever 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:097-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends.lesson:14.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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