Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 71
Balkis the Most Beautiful stood up behind the tree among the red lilies and smiled to herself, for she had heard all this talk.
Who acts: Balkis · What happens: stand up, smile, hear · To what, where: tree, Balkis, talk
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 | Balkis | Balkis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Beautiful | det |
| 3 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 Beautiful | amod |
| 4 | Beautiful | Beautiful | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Balkis | appos |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 stood | compound:prt |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 lilies | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lilies | det |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lilies | amod |
| 13 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stood | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 smiled | cc |
| 15 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 herself | case |
| 17 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 smiled | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 heard | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 heard | case |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 heard | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 heard | aux |
| 22 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 smiled | conj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 talk | det:predet |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 talk | det |
| 25 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heard | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | Balkis | the tree | among the red lilies | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind tree=Location | |||
| 2 | smile | past | Balkis not said here | Balkis | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | hear | past · perfect | Balkis | all talk | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer talk=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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