Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 75
The Butterfly’s Wife looked at Balkis, and saw the most beautiful Queen’s eyes shining like deep pools with starlight on them, and she picked up her courage with both wings and said, ‘O Queen, be lovely for ever.
Who acts: Wife, eyes, Balkis, Queen · What happens: look, see, shine, pick up, say, be · To what, where: eyes, courage · 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 (Wife, eyes, Balkis, Queen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Butterfly | det |
| 2 | Butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Butterfly | case |
| 4 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Balkis | case |
| 7 | Balkis | Balkis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Queen | det |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 beautiful | advmod |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Queen | amod |
| 14 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Queen | case |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 saw | obj |
| 17 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 eyes | acl |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 pools | case |
| 19 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pools | amod |
| 20 | pools | pool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shining | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 starlight | case |
| 22 | starlight | starlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pools | nmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 starlight | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 picked | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 picked | cc |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 picked | nsubj |
| 28 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | parataxis |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 picked | compound:prt |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 courage | nmod:poss |
| 31 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 picked | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 wings | case |
| 33 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 wings | det |
| 34 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 picked | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 said | cc |
| 36 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 picked | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 lovely | punct |
| 38 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 43 lovely | punct |
| 39 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 40 Queen | discourse |
| 40 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 lovely | nsubj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 lovely | punct |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 lovely | cop |
| 43 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 said | ccomp |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 ever | case |
| 45 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 43 lovely | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the Butterfly's Wife | at Balkis | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at balkis=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the Butterfly's Wife not said here | the beautiful Queen's eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | the beautiful Queen's eyes not said here | like deep pools with starlight on wifes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pick up | past | Balkis | Balkis's courage | with both wings | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Topic | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Balkis not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | infinitive | Queen | lovely property | 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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