Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 23

In the dark the Wife cries: «Oh, I'll be good!

Who acts: Wife · What happens: cry, be · To what, where: dark · 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 (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	In	in	ADP	_	3 dark	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dark	det
3	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cries	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Wife	det
5	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cries	nsubj
6	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 cries	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 cries	punct
9	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	14 good	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Oh	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 good	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 good	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 good	cop
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cries	ccomp
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 cries	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present	the Wife			the dark			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location
2	is in a quote	future	the Wife = wife					good 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:23.

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, R7-rel-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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