Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 115

Balkis saw the four vast Djinns stoop down to the four corners of the gardens with the Palace in the middle, and she clapped her hands softly and said, ‘At last Suleiman-bin-Daoud will do for the sake of a Butterfly what he ought to have done long ago for his own sake, and the quarrelsome Queens will be frightened!’

Who acts: Balkis, four vast Djinns · What happens: see, stoop down, clap, say, do, frighten · To what, where: middle, hands, last Suleiman Daoud, quarrelsome Queens · 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 (Balkis, four vast Djinns), 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	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Djinns	det
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 Djinns	nummod
5	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Djinns	amod
6	Djinns	djinn	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stoop	nsubj
7	stoop	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 stoop	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 corners	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 corners	det
11	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 corners	nummod
12	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stoop	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 gardens	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gardens	det
15	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 corners	nmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 Palace	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Palace	det
18	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 gardens	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 middle	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 middle	det
21	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stoop	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 clapped	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 clapped	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 clapped	nsubj
25	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hands	nmod:poss
27	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 clapped	obj
28	softly	softly	ADV	_	25 clapped	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 clapped	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 do	punct
32	‘	'	PUNCT	_	41 do	punct
33	At	at	ADP	_	39 Daoud	case
34	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Daoud	amod
35	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Daoud	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 Suleiman	punct
37	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Suleiman	flat
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 bin	punct
39	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 do	obl
40	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 do	aux
41	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 said	ccomp
42	for	for	ADP	_	44 sake	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 sake	det
44	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 do	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 Butterfly	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 Butterfly	det
47	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 sake	nmod
48	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	47 Butterfly	acl:relcl
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 ought	nsubj
50	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 what	acl:relcl
51	to	to	PART	_	53 done	mark
52	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 done	aux
53	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 ought	xcomp
54	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	55 ago	advmod
55	ago	ago	ADV	_	53 done	advmod
56	for	for	ADP	_	59 sake	case
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 sake	nmod:poss
58	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 sake	amod
59	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 done	obl
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 frightened	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 frightened	cc
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 Queens	det
63	quarrelsome	quarrelsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 Queens	amod
64	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	67 frightened	nsubj:pass
65	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	67 frightened	aux
66	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	67 frightened	aux:pass
67	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 saw	parataxis
68	!	!	PUNCT	_	67 frightened	punct
69	’	'	PUNCT	_	67 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	Balkis				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	stoop down	present	the four vast Djinns		the middle	to the four corners of the gardens with the Palace; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location
3	clap	past	Balkis	Balkis's hands		softly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	Balkis not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	do	future			last Suleiman Daoud	for the sake of a Butterfly	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	do	to-infinitive · perfect				for Butterfly's own sake; ago property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	frighten	future · passive		the quarrelsome Queens			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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