Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 138
A Butterfly has made complaint against his wife because she quarrelled with him, and it has pleased our Lord Suleiman-bin-Daoud to teach her a lesson in low-speaking and humbleness, for that is counted a virtue among the wives of the butterflies.’
Who acts: Queen, marble · What happens: make, quarrell, have, teach, speak, count · To what, where: Butterfly, Lord, lesson, Queen, that · 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 (Queen, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Butterfly | det |
| 2 | Butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | complaint | complaint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | xcomp |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 wife | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 complaint | nmod |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 quarrelled | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 quarrelled | nsubj |
| 11 | quarrelled | quarrell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | advcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 quarrelled | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 has | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 has | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 has | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 18 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 has | xcomp |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 20 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 has | obl |
| 21 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Lord | flat |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 bin | punct |
| 23 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Lord | appos |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 bin | punct |
| 25 | Daoud | Daoud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Lord | flat |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 teach | mark |
| 27 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 has | advcl |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 teach | obj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 lesson | det |
| 30 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 teach | obj |
| 31 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 34 speaking | mark |
| 32 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 speaking | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 low | punct |
| 34 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 teach | advcl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 humbleness | cc |
| 36 | humbleness | humbleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 speaking | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 counted | punct |
| 38 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 41 counted | mark |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 counted | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 counted | aux:pass |
| 41 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 speaking | conj |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 virtue | det |
| 43 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 counted | obj |
| 44 | among | among | ADP | _ | 46 wives | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 wives | det |
| 46 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 counted | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 butterflies | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 butterflies | det |
| 49 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 wives | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 51 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · perfect · passive | a Butterfly | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | quarrell | past | Queen | with Butterfly | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | marble | our Lord | pleased property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | teach speech: other | to-infinitive | marble not said here | a lesson | Queen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient lesson=Topic | |||
| 5 | speak speech: other | gerund | marble not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | count | present · passive | that | among the wives of the butterflies | 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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