Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 23
And the Animal said, ‘O King, live for ever, but do you really call that a dinner?
Who acts: Animal, you · What happens: say, live, call · To what, where: dinner · 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 (Animal, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Animal | det |
| 3 | Animal | Animal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 live | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 live | punct |
| 7 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 8 King | case |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 live | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 live | punct |
| 10 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 ever | case |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 live | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 call | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 call | cc |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 call | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 call | nsubj |
| 17 | really | really | ADV | _ | 18 call | advmod |
| 18 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 dinner | mark |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 dinner | det |
| 21 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 call | xcomp |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Animal | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | live | present | of King | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | call | present · do-support | you | a dinner | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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