Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 108
When he stamps again you will bring them back carefully.’
Who acts: Butterfly, you · What happens: stamp, bring back · To what, where: Slaves
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, you), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 stamps | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stamps | nsubj |
| 3 | stamps | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bring | advcl |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 stamps | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 bring | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 bring | aux |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bring | obj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 bring | advmod |
| 10 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 7 bring | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bring | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stamp | present | Butterfly | again | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bring back | future | you | Slaves = slave | carefully property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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