Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 4

«She will never laugh at you again,» says Suleiman, and for the Butterfly's sake, not to show off, he turns his ring.

Who acts: Wife, Suleiman · What happens: not laugh, say, not show off, turn · To what, where: ring · 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, Suleiman), 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	_	5 laugh	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laugh	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 laugh	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 laugh	advmod
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 says	ccomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 laugh	obl
8	again	again	ADV	_	5 laugh	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 laugh	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 says	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sake	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sake	cc
15	for	for	ADP	_	19 sake	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Butterfly	det
17	Butterfly	butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 sake	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Butterfly	case
19	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Suleiman	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 show	punct
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 show	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 show	mark
23	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Suleiman	parataxis
24	off	off	ADP	_	23 show	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 turns	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 turns	nsubj
27	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 show	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 ring	nmod:poss
29	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 turns	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not laugh in a quote	future	Wife		again	at you	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	Suleiman and the Butterfly's sake				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not show off	to-infinitive					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	turn	present	Suleiman	Butterfly's ring			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=Theme

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:4.

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, R8-pos-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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