Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 100

He forgot all about his Queens; he forgot all about the Animal that came out of the sea; he forgot about showing off.

Who acts: Suleiman, Animal · What happens: forget, come out, show off · To what, where: sea

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 (Suleiman, Animal), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	2 forgot	advmod
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 Queens	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 Queens	nmod:poss
6	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forgot	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 forgot	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 forgot	nsubj
9	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 forgot	conj
10	all	all	ADV	_	9 forgot	advmod
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 Animal	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Animal	det
13	Animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 forgot	obl
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Animal	acl:relcl
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 sea	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 sea	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sea	det
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 forgot	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 forgot	nsubj
22	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 forgot	conj
23	about	about	SCONJ	_	24 showing	mark
24	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 forgot	advcl
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 showing	compound:prt
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 forgot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	forget	past	Suleiman		about Suleiman's Queens; all property	tree rules
2	forget	past	Suleiman		about the Animal; all property	tree rules
3	come out	past	the Animal	the sea		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient sea=Result
4	forget	past	Suleiman			tree rules
5	show off	gerund	Suleiman not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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