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title: In the dark the Wife cries: «Oh, I'll be good! — Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the dark the Wife cries: «Oh, I'll be good! Who acts: Wife. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 23

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In the dark the Wife cries: «Oh, I'll be good!

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**Who acts:** Wife · **What happens:** cry, be · **To what, where:** dark · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Wife), 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:23
# text = In the dark the Wife cries: «Oh, I'll be good!
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
3	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
9	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | the Wife |  |  | the dark |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | future | the Wife *= wife* |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:23`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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