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title: In 1907 he became the first English-language writer to win the Nobel… — Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1907 he became the first English-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Who acts: book. 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 depe
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# Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 35

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In 1907 he became the first English-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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**Who acts:** book · **What happens:** become, win · **To what, where:** first English language writer, 1907, Nobel Prize, Literature

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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 (book), 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:35
# text = In 1907 he became the first English-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
# 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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1907	1907	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
7	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Nobel	Nobel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Prize	Prize	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Literature	literature	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **become** | past | book | the first English language writer |  |  |  | in 1907 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1907=Result |
| 2 | **win** | to-infinitive | book *not said here* | the Nobel Prize |  | Literature |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality |

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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:35`.

**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. **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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