Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 20
I am the smallest of thirty thousand brothers, and our home is at the bottom of the sea.
Who acts: I, home · What happens: be · To what, where: bottom
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, home), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 smallest | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 smallest | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 smallest | det |
| 4 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 brothers | case |
| 6 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 thousand | compound |
| 7 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 brothers | nummod |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 smallest | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bottom | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bottom | cc |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 home | nmod:poss |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bottom | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 bottom | cop |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 bottom | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bottom | det |
| 16 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brothers | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sea | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sea | det |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bottom | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 smallest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | of thousand brothers; small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | our home | the bottom | of the sea | tree rules |
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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