Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 105

She’ll laugh at me to the end of my days!’

Who acts: Balkis · What happens: laugh · To what, where: end

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	3 laugh	nsubj
2	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 laugh	aux
3	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 laugh	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laugh	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 days	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 days	nmod:poss
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 end	nmod
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 laugh	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 laugh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	future	Balkis		the end of my days			at me	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to end=Recipient

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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