Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 7
The Wife begs him to bring it back; he stamps again, and the Palace comes down without a bump.
Who acts: Wife, Stamp, Palace · What happens: beg, bring back, stamp, come down · To what, where: Stamp, Palace
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, Stamp, Palace), 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 Wife | det |
| 2 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begs | nsubj |
| 3 | begs | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 begs | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 bring | mark |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 begs | xcomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bring | obj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 bring | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 stamps | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stamps | nsubj |
| 11 | stamps | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 begs | parataxis |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 stamps | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 comes | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 comes | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Palace | det |
| 16 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 comes | nsubj |
| 17 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 begs | conj |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 comes | advmod |
| 19 | without | without | ADP | _ | 21 bump | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bump | det |
| 21 | bump | bump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 comes | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | present | the Wife | Stamp | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bring back not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Wife not said here | Palace | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stamp | present | Stamp | again | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come down | present | the Palace | without a bump; down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:7.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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