Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 89
‘I don’t believe you one little bit,’ said the Butterfly’s Wife.
Who acts: I · What happens: not believe, say · To what, where: you, Wife · 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 (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 | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 believe | advmod |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | obj |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 bit | nummod |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bit | amod |
| 9 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 believe | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Butterfly | det |
| 14 | Butterfly | Butterfly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Butterfly | case |
| 16 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | present · do-support | I | you | one little bit obl:unmarked | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Butterfly's Wife | 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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