Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 145
And he kissed them on the wings, and they flew away.
Who acts: Suleiman, steps · What happens: kiss, fly away · To what, where: steps, wings
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 (Suleiman, steps), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 kissed | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kissed | nsubj |
| 3 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kissed | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 wings | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wings | det |
| 7 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kissed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 flew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 flew | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 flew | nsubj |
| 11 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | conj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 flew | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | Suleiman | steps = step | the wings | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | fly away | past | steps = step | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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