Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 36

«Just so»: Kipling wrote that the bedtime stories for his little daughter had to be told exactly the same way each time, «just so», with not one word changed; she was the first Best Beloved.

Who acts: Kipling, bedtime stories · What happens: write, have, tell, change, be · To what, where: same way, one word, first Best Beloved · 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 (Kipling, bedtime stories), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 wrote	punct
2	Just	just	ADV	_	3 so	advmod
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 wrote	advmod
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 so	punct
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 so	punct
6	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wrote	nsubj
7	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 had	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stories	det
10	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stories	compound
11	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	nsubj
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 daughter	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 daughter	nmod:poss
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 daughter	amod
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stories	nmod
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wrote	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	19 told	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 told	aux:pass
19	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 had	xcomp
20	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	23 way	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 way	det
22	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 way	amod
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 told	obj
24	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	25 time	det
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 told	obl:unmarked
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 »	punct
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	29 so	punct
28	just	just	ADV	_	29 so	advmod
29	so	so	ADV	_	7 wrote	advmod
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	29 so	punct
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 word	punct
32	with	with	ADP	_	35 word	case
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 one	advmod
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 word	nummod
35	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wrote	obl
36	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 word	acl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 Beloved	punct
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 Beloved	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 Beloved	cop
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Beloved	det
41	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	43 Beloved	amod
42	Best	Best	PROPN	_	43 Beloved	flat
43	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wrote	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	Kipling			with one word	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	the bedtime stories for story's little daughter				tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive · passive	the bedtime stories for story's little daughter not said here	the same way	time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	change	participle		one word not said here			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	Kipling	the first Best Beloved			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:36.

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, R6-punct-agree ×4, 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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