Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 139

Then up and spoke an Egyptian Queen--the daughter of a Pharoah--and she said, ‘Our Palace cannot be plucked up by the roots like a leek for the sake of a little insect.

Who acts: Queen, roots · What happens: speak, say, not pluck up · To what, where: Egyptian Queen, Palace · 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, roots), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 up	advmod
2	up	up	ADV	_	4 spoke	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 spoke	cc
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Queen	det
6	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Queen	amod
7	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	obj
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 daughter	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 daughter	det
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Queen	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Pharoah	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 Pharoah	det
13	Pharoah	Pharoah	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 daughter	nmod
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoke	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 plucked	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 plucked	punct
20	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 Palace	nmod:poss
21	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 plucked	nsubj:pass
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 plucked	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 plucked	advmod
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 plucked	aux:pass
25	plucked	pluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 said	ccomp
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 plucked	compound:prt
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 roots	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 roots	det
29	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 plucked	obl
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 leek	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 leek	det
32	leek	leek	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 roots	nmod
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 sake	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sake	det
35	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 plucked	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 insect	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 insect	det
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 insect	amod
39	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sake	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past		a Egyptian Queen		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Queen			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not pluck up	can · passive	the roots like a leek	Our Palace	for the sake of a little insect	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent subject=Theme for sake=Beneficiary

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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