Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 82

‘Little sister,’ said Balkis, ‘you are quite right; but next time he begins to boast, take him at his word.

Who acts: Little sister, you, husband · What happens: say, be, begin, boast, take, word · To what, where: husband, word · 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 (Little sister, you, husband), 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 sister	punct
2	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sister	amod
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sister	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 sister	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 right	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 right	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 right	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 right	advmod
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 begins	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 begins	cc
16	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 time	amod
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 begins	obl:unmarked
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 begins	nsubj
19	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 boast	mark
21	boast	boast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 begins	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 take	punct
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 boast	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 take	obj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 word	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 word	nmod:poss
27	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Little sister					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	you				right property	tree rules
3	begin	present	husband			time		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	boast speech: other	to-infinitive	husband not said here					vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	take	infinitive	husband not said here	husband	husband's word			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at word=Asset
6	word		husband					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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