Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 106

‘No, little brother,’ said Suleiman-bin-Daoud, ‘she will never laugh at you again,’ and he turned the ring on his finger--just for the little Butterfly’s sake, not for the sake of showing off,--and, lo and behold, four huge Djinns came out of the earth!

Who acts: little brother, Balkis, Suleiman, sake, four huge Djinns · What happens: say, not laugh, turn, show off, come out · To what, where: ring, finger, earth · 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 (little brother, Balkis, Suleiman, sake), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 brother	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brother	punct
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brother	amod
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brother	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 brother	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Suleiman	punct
11	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Suleiman	flat
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 bin	punct
13	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Suleiman	flat
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 laugh	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 laugh	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 laugh	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 laugh	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 laugh	advmod
19	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 laugh	obl
22	again	again	ADV	_	19 laugh	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 laugh	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 laugh	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 turned	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 turned	nsubj
27	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ring	det
29	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 turned	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 finger	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 finger	nmod:poss
32	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 turned	obl
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	40 sake	punct
34	just	just	ADV	_	40 sake	advmod
35	for	for	ADP	_	40 sake	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Butterfly	det
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Butterfly	amod
38	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 sake	nmod:poss
39	’s	's	PART	_	38 Butterfly	case
40	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 turned	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 sake	punct
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 sake	advmod
43	for	for	ADP	_	45 sake	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 sake	det
45	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sake	conj
46	of	of	SCONJ	_	47 showing	mark
47	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 sake	acl
48	off	off	ADP	_	47 showing	compound:prt
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 lo	punct
50	--	--	PUNCT	_	53 lo	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 lo	cc
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 lo	punct
53	lo	lo	INTJ	_	40 sake	conj
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 behold	cc
55	behold	behold	INTJ	_	53 lo	conj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 came	punct
57	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	59 Djinns	nummod
58	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 Djinns	amod
59	Djinns	djinn	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 came	nsubj
60	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
61	out	out	ADP	_	64 earth	case
62	of	of	ADP	_	64 earth	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 earth	det
64	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 came	obl
65	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	little brother					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not laugh	future	Balkis			again	at you	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	turn	past	Suleiman	the ring	Suleiman's finger		for the little Butterfly's sake and the sake	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=Theme
4	show off	gerund	the sake not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come out	past	four huge Djinns	the earth				vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient earth=Result

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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