Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 161

THERE was never a Queen like Balkis, From here to the wide world’s end; But Balkis talked to a butterfly As you would talk to a friend.

Who acts: Balkis, you · What happens: not be, talk · To what, where: Queen

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, you), 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	THERE	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Queen	det
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 Balkis	case
7	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Queen	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 here	punct
9	From	from	ADP	_	10 here	case
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 was	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	16 end	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
13	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 world	amod
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 end	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 world	case
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 here	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 talked	punct
18	But	but	CCONJ	_	20 talked	cc
19	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 talked	nsubj
20	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 butterfly	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 butterfly	det
23	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 talked	obl
24	As	as	SCONJ	_	27 talk	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 talk	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 talk	aux
27	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 talked	advcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 friend	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 friend	det
30	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 talk	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not be	past		a Queen like Balkis	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk	past	Balkis			to a butterfly	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to butterfly=Co-Agent
3	talk	would	you			to a friend	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to friend=Co-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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