Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 134
They stood on the marble steps one hundred abreast and shouted, ‘What is our trouble?
Who acts: babies, marble · What happens: stand, step, shout, be · To what, where: one hundred, trouble
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, marble), 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 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 6 steps | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 marble | det |
| 5 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 steps | nsubj |
| 6 | steps | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | advcl |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hundred | compound |
| 8 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 steps | obj |
| 9 | abreast | abreast | ADV | _ | 6 steps | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shouted | cc |
| 11 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 trouble | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 trouble | punct |
| 14 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 trouble | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 trouble | cop |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 17 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shouted | conj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | babies = baby | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | step | present | the marble | one hundred | abreast property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hundred=Theme | |||
| 3 | shout speech: express | past | babies = baby not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | our trouble | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/134/