Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 133

They hurried down the great marble steps below the fountain, one hundred abreast, and the Most Wise Balkis went statelily forward to meet them and said, ‘What is your trouble, O Queens?’

Who acts: babies, Wise Balkis · What happens: hurry down, go, meet, say, be · To what, where: great marble steps, fountain, babies, trouble · 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 (babies, Wise 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hurried	nsubj
2	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 hurried	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 steps	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 steps	amod
6	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 steps	compound
7	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hurried	obj
8	below	below	ADP	_	10 fountain	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fountain	det
10	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 steps	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hundred	punct
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 hundred	compound
13	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 fountain	nmod
14	abreast	abreast	ADV	_	13 hundred	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Balkis	det
18	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 Wise	amod
19	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Balkis	amod
20	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hurried	conj
22	statelily	statelily	ADV	_	21 went	advmod
23	forward	forward	ADV	_	21 went	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 meet	mark
25	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 went	advcl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 meet	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hurried	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 trouble	punct
30	‘	'	PUNCT	_	34 trouble	punct
31	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 trouble	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 trouble	cop
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 trouble	nmod:poss
34	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 said	ccomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Queens	punct
36	O	o	INTJ	_	37 Queens	discourse
37	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 trouble	conj
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	34 trouble	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 trouble	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hurry down	past	babies = baby	the great marble steps	the fountain one hundred		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent step=Theme below fountain=Trajectory
2	go	past	the Wise Balkis			forward, statelily property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	meet	to-infinitive	the Wise Balkis not said here	babies = baby			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	babies = baby not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present		your trouble and Queens			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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