Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 21

We heard that you were going to feed all the animals in all the world, and my brothers sent me to ask when dinner would be ready.’

Who acts: We, you, brothers, dinner · What happens: hear, go, feed, send, ask, be · To what, where: animals, world, me · 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 (We, you, brothers, dinner), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 going	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 going	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 heard	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 feed	mark
8	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 going	xcomp
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 animals	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 animals	det
11	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 feed	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 world	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 world	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 world	det
15	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sent	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sent	cc
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 brothers	nmod:poss
19	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sent	nsubj
20	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 sent	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 ask	mark
23	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sent	advcl
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 ready	advmod
25	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ready	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 ready	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 ready	cop
28	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ask	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	We				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	go	past · progressive	you				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	feed	to-infinitive	you not said here	all animals	all world		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent animal=Value in world=Location
4	send	past	my brothers	me			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	my brothers not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	would	dinner			ready property	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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