Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 3
Stamp!» The Butterfly flies back to Suleiman in a panic: now his wife will laugh at him for ever.
Who acts: Butterfly, wife · What happens: fly back, laugh · To what, where: Suleiman, panic
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, 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 | Stamp | stamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flies | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stamp | punct |
| 3 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stamp | case |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Butterfly | det |
| 5 | Butterfly | butterfly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 flies | nsubj |
| 6 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 flies | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Suleiman | case |
| 9 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 flies | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 panic | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 panic | det |
| 12 | panic | panic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flies | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 laugh | punct |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 laugh | advmod |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 laugh | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 laugh | aux |
| 18 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 flies | parataxis |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 laugh | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 ever | case |
| 22 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 laugh | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flies | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly back in a quote | present | the Butterfly | Suleiman | a panic | » Stamp | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in panic=Location | ||
| 2 | laugh in a quote | future | Butterfly's wife | now | at Butterfly | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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:3.
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 ×2. 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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