Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 88
‘Remember what I can do if I stamp my foot.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: remember, do, stamp · To what, where: foot · 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 (you, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Remember | punct |
| 2 | Remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 do | obj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Remember | ccomp |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 stamp | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 stamp | nsubj |
| 9 | stamp | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | advcl |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 foot | nmod:poss |
| 11 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stamp | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Remember | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | imperative | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | can | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | stamp a condition, not said to happen | present | I | my foot | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Destination |
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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