--- title: Yet he was not proud: once he tried to feed all the animals in the w… — Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, par… · tree and pragmatics description: Yet he was not proud: once he tried to feed all the animals in the world in one day, and a single Animal from the sea ate it all in three mouthfuls and asked when dinner would be ready. Who acts: ring, single Animal, dinner. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ring, single Animal, dinner), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:096-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast.lesson:2 # text = Yet he was not proud: once he tried to feed all the animals in the world in one day, and a single Animal from the sea ate it all in three mouthfuls and asked when dinner would be ready. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 096-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Yet yet CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 once once SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 14 det:predet _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 Animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 26 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 30 dep _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 mouthfuls mouthful NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 37 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 41 advmod _ _ 38 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 39 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 cop _ _ 41 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:ccomp 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | past | ring | | | | | proud *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **try** | past | ring | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **feed** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | ring *not said here* | all animals | | the world | day | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent animal=Value in world=Location | | 4 | **eat** | past | a single Animal from the sea | sea | | three mouthfuls | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | a single Animal from the sea *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | would | dinner | | | | | ready *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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. 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