Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 74
Balkis bent her beautiful head down and whispered, ‘Little woman, do you believe what your husband has just said?’
Who acts: Balkis, you · What happens: bend, whisper, believe, say · To what, where: beautiful head, Little woman, husband · 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 (Balkis, you), 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 | 2 bent | nsubj |
| 2 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 head | amod |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bent | obj |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 bent | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 whispered | cc |
| 8 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bent | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 woman | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 woman | punct |
| 11 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whispered | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 believe | punct |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 believe | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 believe | nsubj |
| 16 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bent | advcl |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 said | obj |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 husband | nmod:poss |
| 19 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 said | aux |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 said | advmod |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 believe | ccomp |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | past | Balkis | Balkis's beautiful head | down property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material | |||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | Balkis not said here | Little woman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | believe | present · do-support | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | your husband | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Manner |
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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