Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 36
She sat in her rooms in the Golden Palace, or walked in the Palace garden, and was truly sorry for him.
Who acts: Balkis · What happens: sit, walk, be · To what, where: rooms, Palace garden
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 (Balkis), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 rooms | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 rooms | nmod:poss |
| 5 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sat | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Palace | det |
| 8 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Palace | amod |
| 9 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 walked | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 walked | cc |
| 12 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 garden | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 garden | det |
| 15 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 garden | compound |
| 16 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walked | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sorry | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sorry | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sorry | cop |
| 20 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 21 sorry | advmod |
| 21 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 walked | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sorry | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Balkis | Balkis's rooms | in the Golden Palace | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location | |||
| 2 | walk | past | Balkis not said here | the Palace garden | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Balkis not said here | for part; sorry, truly 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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