Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 153

It was I who told the Butterfly’s Wife to ask the Butterfly to stamp, because I hoped that for the sake of the jest my Lord would make some great magic and that the Queens would see it and be frightened.’

Who acts: Existence, I, Lord, Queens · What happens: be, tell, ask, stamp, hope, make · To what, where: I, Wife, Butterfly, that, great magic, Existence · 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 (Existence, I, Lord, Queens), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 I	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 I	cop
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Butterfly	det
7	Butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Wife	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Butterfly	case
9	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 ask	mark
11	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Butterfly	det
13	Butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ask	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 stamp	mark
15	stamp	stamp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 ask	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hoped	punct
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 hoped	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 hoped	nsubj
19	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 hoped	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 sake	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sake	det
23	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hoped	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 jest	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 jest	det
26	jest	jest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sake	nmod
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 Lord	nmod:poss
28	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 make	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 make	aux
30	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 hoped	ccomp
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 magic	det
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 magic	amod
33	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 make	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 see	cc
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 see	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Queens	det
37	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 see	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 see	aux
39	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 make	conj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 see	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 frightened	cc
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 frightened	aux:pass
43	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 see	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Existence	I			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	I		the Butterfly's Wife		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic
3	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		the Butterfly		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent butterfly=Recipient clause=Topic
4	stamp not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hope	past	I	that		for the sake of the jest	tree rules
6	make	would	my Lord	some great magic			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Product
7	see	would	the Queens	Existence			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
8	frighten	infinitive · passive	the Queens not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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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