Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 94
‘You couldn’t bend a blade of grass with your stamping.
Who acts: You · What happens: not bend · To what, where: blade
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), 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 bend | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 bend | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bend | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 bend | advmod |
| 5 | bend | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 blade | det |
| 7 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bend | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 grass | case |
| 9 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blade | nmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 stamping | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 stamping | nmod:poss |
| 12 | stamping | stamping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bend | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bend | could | You | a blade of grass | with your stamping | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent blade=Patient with stamping=Instrument |
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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