Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 118

The Butterfly’s Wife fluttered about in the dark, crying, ‘Oh, I’ll be good!

Who acts: Wife, I · What happens: flutter, cry, be · To what, where: dark

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 (Wife, I), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Butterfly	det
2	Butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Wife	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Butterfly	case
4	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fluttered	nsubj
5	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADV	_	5 fluttered	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 dark	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dark	det
9	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fluttered	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 crying	punct
11	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 fluttered	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 good	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 good	punct
14	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	19 good	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Oh	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 good	nsubj
17	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 good	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 good	cop
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fluttered	parataxis
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 fluttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	flutter	past	the Butterfly's Wife	the dark	about property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location
2	cry speech: express	gerund	the Butterfly's Wife not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	future	I		good property	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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