--- title: The Butterfly says, as bravely as he can: «Of course it doesn't make… — Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, par… · tree and pragmatics description: The Butterfly says, as bravely as he can: «Of course it doesn't make any difference to me, I'm used to this kind of thing.» Who acts: Butterfly, course. 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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 (Butterfly, course), 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:27 # text = The Butterfly says, as bravely as he can: «Of course it doesn't make any difference to me, I'm used to this kind of thing.» # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 as as ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 bravely bravely ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 12 Of of ADP IN ExtPos=ADV 17 advmod _ _ 13 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 fixed _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl 18 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 19 det _ _ 19 difference difference NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 used used ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 28 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Butterfly | | | | | bravely *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **make** *in a quote* | present · do-support | course | any difference | the Butterfly *= butterfly* | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material difference=Product | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Butterfly *= butterfly* | | | | | to this kind of thing; used *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:27`. **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): 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. 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