Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 86

Away flew the Butterfly’s Wife to her husband, and in five minutes they were quarrelling worse than ever.

Who acts: wifes · What happens: fly, quarrell · To what, where: Wife, husband

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 (wifes), 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	Away	away	ADV	_	2 flew	advmod
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Butterfly	det
4	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Wife	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 Butterfly	case
6	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flew	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 husband	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 husband	nmod:poss
9	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flew	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 quarrelling	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 quarrelling	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 minutes	case
13	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 minutes	nummod
14	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 quarrelling	obl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 quarrelling	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 quarrelling	aux
17	quarrelling	quarrell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 flew	advcl
18	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 quarrelling	xcomp
19	than	than	ADP	_	20 ever	case
20	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 worse	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past		the Butterfly's Wife	Queen's husband			away property	vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wife=Theme to husband=Destination
2	quarrell	past · progressive	wifes = wife				minute	bad 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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