Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 103
She wants to see what will happen, O Suleiman-bin-Daoud!
Who acts: Balkis · What happens: want, see, happen · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Balkis), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 see | mark |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wants | xcomp |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 happen | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 happen | aux |
| 7 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 see | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Daoud | punct |
| 9 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 14 Daoud | case |
| 10 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Daoud | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Suleiman | punct |
| 12 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Suleiman | flat |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 bin | punct |
| 14 | Daoud | Daoud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 happen | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Balkis | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | Balkis not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | happen | future | of Suleiman Daoud | vn occur-48.3-1 «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.
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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