Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 142
Then Balkis beckoned that bold Queen without looking at her, and said to her and to the others, ‘Come and see.’
Who acts: Balkis · What happens: beckon, look, say, come, see · To what, where: bold Queen, Queen · 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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 beckoned | advmod |
| 2 | Balkis | Balkis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 beckoned | nsubj |
| 3 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 Queen | mark |
| 5 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Queen | amod |
| 6 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 beckoned | obl |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 8 looking | mark |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 beckoned | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 beckoned | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 others | cc |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 others | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 others | det |
| 19 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 her | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Come | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 Come | punct |
| 22 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 see | cc |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 Come | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 Come | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beckon | past | Balkis | bold Queen | then | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | Balkis not said here | at Queen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Balkis not said here | Queen | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to she=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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/pg2781/13/142/