Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 2
Soon the two butterflies are quarrelling again, and the Wife cries «Stamp!
Who acts: two butterflies, Wife · What happens: quarrel, cry · To what, where: Stamp
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 (two butterflies, Wife), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 quarrelling | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 butterflies | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 butterflies | nummod |
| 4 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 quarrelling | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 quarrelling | aux |
| 6 | quarrelling | quarrel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 quarrelling | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cries | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cries | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Wife | det |
| 11 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cries | nsubj |
| 12 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 quarrelling | conj |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 Stamp | punct |
| 14 | Stamp | stamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cries | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 quarrelling | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quarrel | present · progressive | the two butterflies | again | soon property | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | present | the Wife | Stamp | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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:2.
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): no change. 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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