Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 62

Back flew the Butterfly to his wife, who was all of a twitter behind a leaf, and she said, ‘He heard you!

Who acts: Head, Butterfly · What happens: fly, say, hear · To what, where: Butterfly, wife, you · 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 (Head, Butterfly), 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	Back	back	ADV	_	2 flew	advmod
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Butterfly	det
4	Butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flew	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 wife	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flew	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 all	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 all	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 all	cop
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 wife	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 twitter	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 twitter	det
14	twitter	twitter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 all	nmod
15	behind	behind	ADP	_	17 leaf	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 leaf	det
17	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 twitter	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 heard	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 heard	punct
24	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 heard	nsubj
25	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 said	conj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 heard	obj
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	fly	past		the Butterfly	Butterfly's wife	vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent butterfly=Theme to wife=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	Head			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	hear	past	Butterfly	you		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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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