Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 9

Balkis tells them calmly that a Butterfly complained about his wife, and the King taught her a lesson.

Who acts: Balkis, Butterfly, King · What happens: tell, complain, teach · To what, where: Queens, lesson, Balkis · 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 (Balkis, Butterfly, King), 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	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tells	iobj
4	calmly	calmly	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 tells	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 complained	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Butterfly	det
7	Butterfly	butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 complained	nsubj
8	complained	complain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	ccomp
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 wife	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wife	nmod:poss
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 complained	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 taught	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 taught	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 King	det
15	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 taught	nsubj
16	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 taught	iobj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 lesson	det
19	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 taught	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Balkis		Queens = queen	calmly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	complain speech: other	past	a Butterfly			about Butterfly's wife	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about wife=Topic
3	teach speech: other	past	the King	a lesson	Balkis		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient lesson=Topic

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:9.

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): R8-pos-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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