Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 127

So he stamped once more, and that instant the Djinns let down the Palace and the gardens, without even a bump.

Who acts: Butterfly, that · What happens: stamp, instant, let down · To what, where: Djinns, Palace

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, that), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 stamped	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stamped	nsubj
3	stamped	stamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 stamped	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 instant	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 instant	cc
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 instant	nsubj
9	instant	instant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stamped	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Djinns	det
11	Djinns	djinn	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 instant	obj
12	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 instant	xcomp
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 let	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Palace	det
15	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 let	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 gardens	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gardens	det
18	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 Palace	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bump	punct
20	without	without	ADP	_	23 bump	case
21	even	even	ADV	_	23 bump	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bump	det
23	bump	bump	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 let	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stamped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stamp	past	Butterfly			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	instant	past	that	the Djinns		tree rules
3	let down	infinitive	that not said here	the Palace and the gardens	without a bump	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=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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