Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 125
‘Well, my dear,’ said the Butterfly as bravely as he could, ‘you see what your nagging has led to.
Who acts: you · What happens: say, see, lead · To what, where: Butterfly, nagging · 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 (you), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 dear | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 dear | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dear | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dear | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Butterfly | det |
| 10 | Butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 bravely | advmod |
| 12 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 could | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 could | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 bravely | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 see | nsubj |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 led | obl |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 nagging | nmod:poss |
| 22 | nagging | nagging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 led | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 led | aux |
| 24 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 see | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 led | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Butterfly | bravely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent butterfly=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | lead | present · perfect · passive | your nagging | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=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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