Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 136
That is our trouble, O Head Queen, and we are most extremely troubled on account of that trouble, for it was a troublesome trouble, unlike any trouble we have known.’
Who acts: That, we, marble · What happens: be, know, account · To what, where: trouble, account
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 (That, we, 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 trouble | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 trouble | cop |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 4 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Head | punct |
| 6 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 7 Head | discourse |
| 7 | Head | Head | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 trouble | appos |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Head | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 troubled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 troubled | cc |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 troubled | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 troubled | cop |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 extremely | advmod |
| 14 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 15 troubled | advmod |
| 15 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 trouble | parataxis |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 account | case |
| 17 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 troubled | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 trouble | case |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 trouble | det |
| 20 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 account | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 trouble | punct |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 trouble | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 trouble | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 trouble | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 trouble | det |
| 26 | troublesome | troublesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 trouble | amod |
| 27 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 troubled | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 trouble | punct |
| 29 | unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 31 trouble | case |
| 30 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 trouble | det |
| 31 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 trouble | nmod |
| 32 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 known | nsubj |
| 33 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 known | aux |
| 34 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 trouble | acl:relcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 trouble | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 trouble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | our trouble | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | we | account of that trouble | extremely, troubled property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | marble | for a troublesome trouble; unlike any trouble | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | present · perfect | we | any trouble not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer trouble=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | account | that trouble | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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