Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 25
Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud fell flat on his face and said, ‘O Animal!
Who acts: Suleiman · What happens: fall, say · To what, where: face · 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 (Suleiman), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 fell | advmod |
| 2 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Suleiman | punct |
| 4 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Suleiman | flat |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 bin | punct |
| 6 | Daoud | Daoud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Suleiman | flat |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | flat | flat | ADV | _ | 7 fell | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 face | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 face | nmod:poss |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fell | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ‘ | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 16 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 17 Animal | case |
| 17 | Animal | Animal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Suleiman | Suleiman's face | then | flat property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on face=Location | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Suleiman not said here | of Animal | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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