Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 27
Now I am ashamed, and it serves me right.
Who acts: I, dinner · What happens: be, serve · To what, where: me
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, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 ashamed | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ashamed | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ashamed | cop |
| 4 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 serves | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 serves | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 serves | nsubj |
| 8 | serves | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ashamed | conj |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 serves | obj |
| 10 | right | right | ADV | _ | 8 serves | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ashamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | now | ashamed property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | serve | present | dinner | me | right property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute |
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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