Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 154
And she told him what the Queens had said and seen and thought.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: tell, say, see, think · To what, where: Butterfly, Queens · 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), 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 told | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 said | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queens | det |
| 7 | Queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | aux |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 told | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seen | cc |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thought | cc |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 seen | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Queen | Butterfly | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the Queens | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Manner | |||||
| 3 | see | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | think speech: other | participle | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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