Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 163
She was Queen of Sabaea-- And he was Asia’s Lord-- But they both of ‘em talked to butterflies When they took their walks abroad!
Who acts: Balkis, Sabaea, worlds · What happens: be, talk, take, walk · To what, where: Queen, Lord, walks
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, Sabaea, worlds), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 Queen | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Queen | cop |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Sabaea | case |
| 5 | Sabaea | Sabaea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Queen | nmod |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lord | punct |
| 7 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Lord | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 Lord | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Lord | cop |
| 10 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Asia | case |
| 12 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Queen | conj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 talked | punct |
| 14 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 talked | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 talked | nsubj |
| 16 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 talked | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 talked | mark |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 talked | punct |
| 19 | em | they | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 talked | nsubj |
| 20 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Queen | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 butterflies | case |
| 22 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 talked | obl |
| 23 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 took | advmod |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 took | nsubj |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 talked | advcl |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 walks | nmod:poss |
| 27 | walks | walk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 took | obj |
| 28 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 25 took | advmod |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Queen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Balkis | Queen and Asia's Lord | of Sabaea | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Sabaea | Asia's Lord | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | talk | past | worlds = world | Queen and Asia's Lord not said here | to butterflies | tree rules | |||
| 4 | take | past | worlds = world | worlds's walks | abroad property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Theme | |||
| 5 | walk | worlds = world | nom walk «act transitive»: poss=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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