Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 73
Up flew the Butterfly’s Wife, very frightened, and clung to Balkis’s white hand.
Who acts: Up · What happens: fly, cling · To what, where: Wife
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 (Up), 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 | Up | Up | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Butterfly | det |
| 4 | Butterfly | Butterfly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Butterfly | case |
| 6 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flew | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 frightened | punct |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 frightened | advmod |
| 9 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Wife | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 clung | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 clung | cc |
| 12 | clung | cling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 flew | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 14 | Balkis | Balkis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Balkis | case |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hand | amod |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clung | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | Up | the Butterfly's Wife | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wife=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cling | participle | Up not said here | to Balkis's white hand | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to hand=Co-Theme |
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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