Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 124

‘Give him back his Palace, and don’t let’s have any more horrid.magic.’

Who acts: you, ’s · What happens: give back, not let, have · To what, where: Palace, ’s

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 (you, ’s), 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	_	2 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Give	iobj
4	back	back	ADP	_	2 Give	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 Palace	nmod:poss
6	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Give	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 let	cc
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 let	aux
10	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 let	advmod
11	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Give	conj
12	’s	we	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 horrid.magic	nsubj
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 horrid.magic	advmod
16	horrid.magic	horrid.magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 have	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give back	imperative	you not said here		palace's Palace		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient palace=Theme
2	not let	infinitive · do-support	you not said here	’s			tree rules
3	have	infinitive	’s not said here			horrid.magic property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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