Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 117
The Djinns jerked the Palace and the gardens a thousand miles into the air: there was a most awful thunder-clap, and everything grew inky-black.
Who acts: Djinns, awful thunder clap, everything · What happens: jerk, be, grow · To what, where: Palace, air
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 (Djinns, awful thunder clap, everything), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Djinns | det |
| 2 | Djinns | djinn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 jerked | nsubj |
| 3 | jerked | jerk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Palace | det |
| 5 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 jerked | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gardens | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gardens | det |
| 8 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Palace | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 thousand | det |
| 10 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 miles | nummod |
| 11 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 jerked | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jerked | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 was | punct |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jerked | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 clap | det |
| 19 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 20 awful | advmod |
| 20 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 clap | amod |
| 21 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 clap | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 thunder | punct |
| 23 | clap | clap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 was | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 grew | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 grew | cc |
| 26 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 27 grew | nsubj |
| 27 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jerked | conj |
| 28 | inky | inky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 black | amod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 inky | punct |
| 30 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 grew | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jerked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jerk | past | the Djinns | the Palace and the gardens | the air | thousand miles obl:unmarked | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent palace=Result | ||
| 2 | be | past | a awful thunder clap | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | everything | black property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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