Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 58

‘One must keep them in order somehow, said the Butterfly, and she has been quarrelling with me all the morning.

Who acts: One, Butterfly, Head · What happens: keep, say, quarrell · To what, where: brothers, order · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (One, Butterfly, Head), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct
2	One	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keep	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keep	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 order	case
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obl
8	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	4 keep	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Butterfly	det
12	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 quarrelling	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 quarrelling	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 quarrelling	nsubj
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 quarrelling	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 quarrelling	aux
18	quarrelling	quarrell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 quarrelling	obl
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 morning	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 morning	det
23	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 quarrelling	obl:unmarked
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	must	One	brothers = brother	order		somehow property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in order=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the Butterfly					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	quarrell	present · perfect · progressive	Head			morning	with me	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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