Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 109
‘Now, little brother,’ he said, ‘go back to your wife and stamp all you’ve a mind to.’
Who acts: Butterfly, you · What happens: say, go back, stamp, have · To what, where: mind · 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, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 little | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brother | amod |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 wife | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stamp | cc |
| 18 | stamp | stamp | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | conj |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 21 ’ve | advmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 ’ve | nsubj |
| 21 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 stamp | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 mind | det |
| 23 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ’ve | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 ’ve | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Butterfly | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go back | infinitive | to your wife result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wife=Result | |||||
| 3 | stamp | infinitive | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | have | present | you | a mind | all property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=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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