Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 77
And the Queen Balkis, the Wise Balkis of Sheba, put her hand to her lips to hide a smile and said, ‘Little sister, I know.’
Who acts: Queen Balkis, I · What happens: put, hide, say, know · To what, where: hand, smile · 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 (Queen Balkis, I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 put | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Balkis | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Balkis | compound |
| 4 | Balkis | Balkis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 put | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Balkis | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Balkis | det |
| 7 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Balkis | amod |
| 8 | Balkis | Balkis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Balkis | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Sheba | case |
| 10 | Sheba | Sheba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Balkis | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Balkis | punct |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 lips | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lips | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 put | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 hide | mark |
| 19 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 put | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 smile | det |
| 21 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hide | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 put | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sister | punct |
| 25 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 sister | punct |
| 26 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sister | amod |
| 27 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | ccomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 know | punct |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 know | nsubj |
| 30 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 put | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the Queen Balkis | Balkis's hand | to Balkis's lips | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | |||
| 2 | hide | to-infinitive | the Queen Balkis not said here | a smile | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smile=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Queen Balkis not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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