--- title: They live happily ever after, and Kipling asks: «But wasn't it cleve… — Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, par… · tree and pragmatics description: They live happily ever after, and Kipling asks: «But wasn't it clever of Balkis?» Who acts: troubles, Kipling, joke. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends» of the books course of Mova's primary school wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/14/) [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/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/) / 14 # Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 14 They live happily ever after, and Kipling asks: «But wasn't it clever of Balkis?» **Who acts:** troubles, Kipling, joke · **What happens:** live, ask, not be · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends» 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 (troubles, Kipling, joke), 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:14 # text = They live happily ever after, and Kipling asks: «But wasn't it clever of Balkis?» # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 happily happily ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 4 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod 5 after after ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obl|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 10 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 12 But but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Balkis Balkis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 ? ? PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 20 » » 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 | **live** | present | troubles *= trouble* | | | | | after, happily *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Kipling | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | past | joke | | | | | of Balkis; clever *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:097-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends.lesson:14`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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. 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