--- title: Only Balkis, his Head Queen, beautiful and nearly as wise as he, nev… — Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, par… · tree and pragmatics description: Only Balkis, his Head Queen, beautiful and nearly as wise as he, never quarrelled; she loved him and was sorry for him. Who acts: Balkis, most. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast» of the books course of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Just So Stories, The Butterfly that St…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast/) / 5 # Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast, sentence 5 Only Balkis, his Head Queen, beautiful and nearly as wise as he, never quarrelled; she loved him and was sorry for him. **Who acts:** Balkis, most · **What happens:** not quarrel, love, be · **To what, where:** Balkis This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Balkis, most), 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:5 # text = Only Balkis, his Head Queen, beautiful and nearly as wise as he, never quarrelled; she loved him and was sorry for him. # 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): no change 1 Only only ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 Balkis Balkis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 Head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 6 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 as as ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 quarrelled quarrel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 17 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** **quarrel** | past | Balkis | | | | | | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **love** | past | most | Balkis | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | past | most *not said here* | | | | | for Balkis; sorry *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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:096-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast.lesson:5`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, The Butterfly that St…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast/4/) - next →: [Just So Stories, The Butterfly that St…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast/)