Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 102

Presently the Butterfly, very hot and puffy, came whirling back under the shadow of the camphor-tree and said to Suleiman, ‘She wants me to stamp!

Who acts: Butterfly, Balkis, me · What happens: come, whirl back, say, want, stamp, shadow · To what, where: shadow, Suleiman, me, camphor tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly That Stamped. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Butterfly, Balkis, me), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 Butterfly	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Butterfly	det
3	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hot	punct
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 hot	advmod
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Butterfly	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 puffy	cc
8	puffy	puffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hot	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Butterfly	punct
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	whirling	whirl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 came	advcl
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 whirling	advmod
13	under	under	ADP	_	15 shadow	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shadow	det
15	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 whirling	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	20 tree	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tree	det
18	camphor	camphor	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tree	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 camphor	punct
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shadow	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 Suleiman	case
24	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 said	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wants	punct
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 wants	punct
27	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wants	nsubj
28	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 came	parataxis
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 wants	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 stamp	mark
31	stamp	stamp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 wants	xcomp
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	the Butterfly				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	whirl back	gerund	the Butterfly not said here			the shadow of the camphor tree	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme under shadow=Trajectory
3	say speech: assert	past	the Butterfly not said here		Suleiman		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to suleiman=Recipient
4	want	present	Balkis	me			tree rules
5	stamp not said to happen	to-infinitive	me not said here				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	shadow			the camphor tree			nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient

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.

Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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