Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 131

He leaned back all weak and hiccoughy, and shook his finger at the Butterfly and said, ‘O great wizard, what is the sense of returning to me my Palace if at the same time you slay me with mirth!’

Who acts: Suleiman, great wizard, sense, you · What happens: learn back, shake, say, be, return, slay · To what, where: finger, sense, Palace, me · 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 (Suleiman, great wizard, sense, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 leaned	nsubj
2	leaned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 leaned	advmod
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 weak	advmod
5	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 leaned	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hiccoughy	cc
7	hiccoughy	hiccoughy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 weak	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shook	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shook	cc
10	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 leaned	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 finger	nmod:poss
12	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shook	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 Butterfly	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Butterfly	det
15	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 shook	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 leaned	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wizard	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 wizard	punct
20	O	o	INTJ	_	22 wizard	discourse
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 wizard	amod
22	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sense	punct
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 sense	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 sense	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sense	det
27	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wizard	appos
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	29 returning	mark
29	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 sense	acl
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 me	case
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 returning	obl
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 Palace	nmod:poss
33	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 returning	obj
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 slay	mark
35	at	at	ADP	_	38 time	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 time	det
37	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 time	amod
38	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 slay	obl
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 slay	nsubj
40	slay	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 returning	advcl
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 slay	obj
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 mirth	case
43	mirth	mirth	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 slay	obl
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 sense	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 wizard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	learn back	past	Suleiman				weak property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shake	past	Suleiman not said here	Suleiman's finger			at the Butterfly	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent finger=Theme at butterfly=Trajectory
3	say speech: assert	past	Suleiman not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	great wizard	the sense				tree rules
5	return	gerund	the sense not said here	my Palace	me			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent palace=Theme to i=Destination
6	slay a condition, not said to happen	present	you	me		time	with mirth	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent i=Patient with mirth=Instrument

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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