Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 17

Once he tried to feed all the animals in all the world in one day, but when the food was ready an Animal came out of the deep sea and ate it up in three mouthfuls.

Who acts: Suleiman, food, Animal · What happens: try, feed, be, come out, eat up · To what, where: animals, world, deep sea, food, three mouthfuls

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, food, Animal), 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	Once	once	SCONJ	_	3 tried	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tried	nsubj
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 feed	mark
5	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 animals	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 animals	det
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 feed	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 world	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 world	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 animals	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 day	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 day	nummod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 came	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 ready	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 food	det
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ready	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ready	cop
22	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 came	advcl
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 Animal	det
24	Animal	Animal	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	conj
26	out	out	ADP	_	30 sea	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 sea	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sea	det
29	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 sea	amod
30	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 ate	cc
32	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 came	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 ate	obj
34	up	up	ADP	_	32 ate	compound:prt
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 mouthfuls	case
36	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 mouthfuls	nummod
37	mouthfuls	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 ate	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	Suleiman					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	feed not said to happen	to-infinitive	Suleiman not said here	all animals	all world	day		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent animal=Value in world=Location
3	is	past	the food				ready property	tree rules
4	come out	past	a Animal	the deep sea				vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient sea=Result
5	eat up	past	a Animal not said here	food	three mouthfuls			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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