Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 123

‘Yes, give him back his Palace,’ said the Butterfly’s Wife, still flying about in the dark like a moth.

What happens: give back, say, fly · To what, where: Palace, Wife · 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: 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	_	4 give	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 give	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	back	back	ADP	_	4 give	compound:prt
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 Palace	nmod:poss
8	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Butterfly	det
13	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Wife	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 Butterfly	case
15	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 flying	punct
17	still	still	ADV	_	18 flying	advmod
18	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
19	about	about	ADP	_	22 dark	case
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 dark	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dark	det
22	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flying	obl
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 moth	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 moth	det
25	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flying	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give back	infinitive	palace's Palace	palace			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient palace=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Butterfly's Wife				tree rules
3	fly	gerund			still	about the dark; like a moth	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about dark=Location

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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