Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 4
It is not the story of the Glass Pavement, or the Ruby with the Crooked Hole, or the Gold Bars of Balkis.
Who acts: story · What happens: not be · To what, where: story
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 (story), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 story | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 story | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 story | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Pavement | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Pavement | det |
| 8 | Glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Pavement | compound |
| 9 | Pavement | pavement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 story | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ruby | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 Ruby | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Ruby | det |
| 13 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 story | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 Hole | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Hole | det |
| 16 | Crooked | crooked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Hole | amod |
| 17 | Hole | Hole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ruby | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Bars | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 Bars | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Bars | det |
| 21 | Gold | Gold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Bars | compound |
| 22 | Bars | Bar | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 Hole | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Balkis | case |
| 24 | Balkis | Balkis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Bars | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | story | the story | of the Glass Pavement | 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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