Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 147

Then they put their veils over their heads, and they put their hands over their mouths, and they tiptoed back to the Palace most mousy-quiet.

Who acts: steps · What happens: put, tiptoe back · To what, where: veils, heads, hands, mouths, 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 (steps), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 put	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 veils	nmod:poss
5	veils	veil	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	obj
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 heads	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 heads	nmod:poss
8	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 put	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 put	nsubj
12	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hands	nmod:poss
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 put	obj
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 mouths	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mouths	nmod:poss
17	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 put	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tiptoed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tiptoed	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tiptoed	nsubj
21	tiptoed	tiptoe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
22	back	back	ADV	_	21 tiptoed	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 Palace	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Palace	det
25	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 tiptoed	obl
26	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	27 mousy	advmod
27	mousy	mousy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 quiet	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 mousy	punct
29	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tiptoed	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	steps = step	steps's veils		steps's heads	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent veil=Theme over head=Destination
2	put	past	steps = step	steps's hands		steps's mouths			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme over mouth=Destination
3	tiptoe back	past	steps = step		the Palace			quiet property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to palace=Destination

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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