Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 26
I gave that dinner to show what a great and rich king I was, and not because I really wanted to be kind to the animals.
Who acts: I · What happens: give, show, not want, be · To what, where: dinner
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), 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 | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 dinner | det |
| 4 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 show | mark |
| 6 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 gave | advcl |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 show | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 king | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rich | cc |
| 11 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 great | conj |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 what | appos |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 was | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 king | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wanted | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wanted | cc |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 wanted | advmod |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 wanted | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 wanted | nsubj |
| 20 | really | really | ADV | _ | 21 wanted | advmod |
| 21 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 kind | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 kind | cop |
| 24 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wanted | xcomp |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 animals | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 animals | det |
| 27 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 kind | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | I | that dinner | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme | ||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | not want | past | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | to the animals; kind 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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