Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 17
Ask him to stamp, and see what will happen.»
Who acts: you · What happens: ask, stamp, see, happen · To what, where: Butterfly · 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 (you), 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 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Ask | obj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 stamp | mark |
| 4 | stamp | stamp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ask | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 see | cc |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 stamp | conj |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 happen | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 happen | aux |
| 10 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 see | ccomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | Butterfly | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stamp not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | happen | future | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:17.
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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