--- title: She calls the Butterfly's Wife to her finger and gives her a plan: n… — Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, par… · tree and pragmatics description: She calls the Butterfly's Wife to her finger and gives her a plan: next time he boasts, take him at his word and dare him to stamp. Who acts: Balkis, Butterfly. 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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 (Balkis, Butterfly), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:097-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends.lesson:1 # text = She calls the Butterfly's Wife to her finger and gives her a plan: next time he boasts, take him at his word and dare him to stamp. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 097-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 Wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 iobj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP$:Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 boasts boast VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 21 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 dare dare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 stamp stamp VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | present | Balkis | the Butterfly's Wife | Balkis's finger | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Topic to finger=Recipient | | 2 | **give** | present | Balkis *not said here* | a plan | Balkis | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient plan=Theme | | 3 | **boast** *speech: other* | present | Butterfly | | | | time | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **take** | infinitive | | Butterfly | | Butterfly's word | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at word=Asset | | 5 | **dare** | infinitive | | Butterfly | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **stamp** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **word** | | Butterfly | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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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