Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 78
‘They get angry,’ said the Butterfly’s Wife, fanning herself quickly, ‘over nothing at all, but we must humour them, O Queen.
Who acts: lips, we · What happens: get, say, fan, humour · To what, where: Wife, Balkis, nothing, lips · 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 (lips, we), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 get | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Butterfly | det |
| 9 | Butterfly | Butterfly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Butterfly | case |
| 11 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fanning | punct |
| 13 | fanning | fan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 fanning | obj |
| 15 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 13 fanning | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 nothing | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 nothing | punct |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 nothing | case |
| 19 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 fanning | obl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 all | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 nothing | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 humour | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 humour | cc |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 humour | nsubj |
| 25 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 humour | aux |
| 26 | humour | humour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | parataxis |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 humour | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Queen | punct |
| 29 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Queen | compound |
| 30 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 humour | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | lips = lip | angry property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Butterfly's Wife | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fan | gerund | Balkis | nothing | quickly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | humour | must | we | lips = lip | O Queen obl | 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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