Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 101
He just laughed with joy, and Balkis, on the other side of the tree, smiled because her own true love was so joyful.
Who acts: Suleiman, Balkis, own true love · What happens: laugh, smile, be, love
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, Balkis, own true love), 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 | 3 laughed | nsubj |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 laughed | advmod |
| 3 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 joy | case |
| 5 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laughed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 smiled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 smiled | cc |
| 8 | Balkis | Balkis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 smiled | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 side | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 side | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 side | amod |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Balkis | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 tree | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 side | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Balkis | punct |
| 18 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughed | conj |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 26 joyful | mark |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 love | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 love | amod |
| 22 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 love | amod |
| 23 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 joyful | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 joyful | cop |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 joyful | advmod |
| 26 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 smiled | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | Suleiman | with joy | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | smile | past | Balkis | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Balkis's own true love | joyful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | love | Balkis | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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