Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 150
For I have been jesting with a Butterfly ever since I came into the garden.’
Who acts: I · What happens: jest, come · To what, where: garden
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 (I), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 jesting | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 jesting | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 jesting | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 jesting | aux |
| 5 | jesting | jest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 came | advcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 Butterfly | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Butterfly | det |
| 8 | Butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 jesting | obl |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 jesting | advmod |
| 10 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 12 came | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 garden | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 garden | det |
| 15 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jest speech: other | present · perfect · progressive | I | ever | with a Butterfly | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with butterfly=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | come | past | I | the garden | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location |
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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