Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 14

When he turned it twice, Fairies came down from the sky to do whatever he told them; and when he turned it three times, the very great angel Azrael of the Sword came dressed as a water-carrier, and told him the news of the three worlds, Above--Below--and Here.

Who acts: Suleiman, Fairies · What happens: turn, come down, do, tell, dress · To what, where: ring, sky, whatever, Fairies, great angel, news · 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, Fairies), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 turned	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	obj
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 turned	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct
7	Fairies	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 sky	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sky	det
12	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 do	mark
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 came	advcl
15	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 do	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	nsubj
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 whatever	acl:relcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	iobj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 turned	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 turned	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 turned	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 turned	nsubj
23	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 turned	obj
25	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 times	nummod
26	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 turned	obl:unmarked
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 dressed	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 angel	det
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 great	advmod
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 angel	amod
31	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 dressed	nsubj:pass
32	Azrael	Azrael	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 angel	appos
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 Sword	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Sword	det
35	Sword	Sword	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Azrael	nmod
36	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 dressed	aux:pass
37	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 came	advcl
38	as	as	ADP	_	42 carrier	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 carrier	det
40	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 carrier	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 water	punct
42	carrier	carrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 dressed	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 told	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 told	cc
45	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 told	iobj
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 news	det
48	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 told	obj
49	of	of	ADP	_	52 worlds	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 worlds	det
51	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 worlds	nummod
52	worlds	world	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 news	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 Below	punct
54	Above	above	ADP	_	56 Below	case
55	--	--	PUNCT	_	56 Below	punct
56	Below	below	ADV	_	45 told	advmod
57	--	--	PUNCT	_	59 Here	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 Here	cc
59	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	56 Below	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Suleiman	ring				twice property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	come down	past	Fairies			the sky		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sky=Initial_Location
3	do	to-infinitive	Fairies not said here	whatever					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality
4	tell speech: assert	past	Suleiman		Fairies = fairy				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	turn	past	Suleiman	ring			time		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	dress	past · passive		the great angel				as a water carrier	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	tell speech: assert	past	Fairies not said here	the news of the three worlds	Suleiman			below property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient news=Topic

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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