Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 27

The Butterfly says, as bravely as he can: «Of course it doesn't make any difference to me, I'm used to this kind of thing.»

Who acts: Butterfly, course · What happens: say, not make, be · To what, where: difference, 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 (Butterfly, course), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Butterfly	det
2	Butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bravely	punct
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 bravely	advmod
6	bravely	bravely	ADV	_	3 says	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 can	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 can	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 bravely	advcl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 make	punct
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 make	punct
12	Of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	17 make	advmod
13	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Of	fixed
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 make	nsubj
15	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 make	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 make	advmod
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 difference	det
19	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 make	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 used	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 used	nsubj
24	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 used	cop
25	used	used	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 kind	case
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 kind	det
28	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 used	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 thing	case
30	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 kind	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 used	punct
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Butterfly			bravely property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not make in a quote	present · do-support	course	any difference	the Butterfly = butterfly		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material difference=Product
3	is in a quote	present	the Butterfly = butterfly			to this kind of thing; used 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:27.

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): 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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