Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 29
After that he never forgot that it was silly to show off; and now the real story part of my story begins.
Who acts: Suleiman, dinner, real story part · What happens: not forget, be, show off, begin
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, dinner, real story part), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 forgot | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 forgot | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 forgot | advmod |
| 5 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 silly | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 silly | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 silly | cop |
| 9 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 forgot | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 show | mark |
| 11 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 silly | advcl |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 show | compound:prt |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 begins | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 begins | cc |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 begins | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 part | det |
| 17 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 part | amod |
| 18 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 part | compound |
| 19 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 begins | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 story | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 story | nmod:poss |
| 22 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 part | nmod |
| 23 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 forgot | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget | past | Suleiman | after that | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | dinner | silly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | show off | to-infinitive | dinner not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | begin | present | the real story part of my story | now | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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