Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 1

THIS, O my Best Beloved, is a story--a new and a wonderful story--a story quite different from the other stories--a story about The Most Wise Sovereign Suleiman-bin-Daoud--Solomon the Son of David.

Who acts: Best Beloved · What happens: be · To what, where: story

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly That Stamped. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Best Beloved), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	THIS	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 Beloved	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Beloved	punct
3	O	o	INTJ	_	6 Beloved	vocative
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 Beloved	nmod:poss
5	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 Beloved	amod
6	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 story	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Beloved	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 story	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 story	det
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 new	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 new	det
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 story	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 story	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 story	det
16	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 story	amod
17	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 new	conj
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 story	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 story	det
20	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 story	parataxis
21	quite	quite	ADV	_	22 different	advmod
22	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 story	amod
23	from	from	ADP	_	26 stories	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stories	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 stories	amod
26	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 different	obl
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 story	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 story	det
29	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 story	parataxis
30	about	about	ADP	_	39 Daoud	case
31	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Daoud	det
32	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 Daoud	nsubj
33	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Sovereign	amod
34	Sovereign	Sovereign	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Daoud	nsubj
35	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Daoud	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 Suleiman	punct
37	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 Daoud	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 bin	punct
39	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 story	obl
40	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 Solomon	punct
41	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Daoud	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Son	det
43	Son	Son	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Solomon	conj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 David	case
45	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Son	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 story	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	my Best Beloved	a story					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.

Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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