Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 156

But by means of your wisdom I made the magic for the sake of a jest and for the sake of a little Butterfly, and--behold--it has also delivered me from the vexations of my vexatious wives!

Who acts: I · What happens: mean, make, deliver, vex · To what, where: magic, vexations, vexatious wives · 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 (I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 means	cc
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 means	case
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 wisdom	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wisdom	nmod:poss
6	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 made	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 magic	det
10	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 sake	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sake	det
13	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 jest	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 jest	det
16	jest	jest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sake	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sake	cc
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 sake	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sake	det
20	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 jest	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 Butterfly	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 Butterfly	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Butterfly	amod
24	Butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sake	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 delivered	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 delivered	cc
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 delivered	punct
28	behold	behold	INTJ	_	33 delivered	discourse
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 behold	punct
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 delivered	nsubj:pass
31	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 delivered	aux
32	also	also	ADV	_	33 delivered	advmod
33	delivered	deliver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 made	conj
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 delivered	obj
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 vexations	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 vexations	det
37	vexations	vexation	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 delivered	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 wives	case
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 wives	nmod:poss
40	vexatious	vexatious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 wives	amod
41	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 vexations	nmod
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	past	I	the magic		of your wisdom; for the sake of a jest and the sake of a little Butterfly	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent magic=Product for sake=Asset
3	deliver	present · perfect · passive		magic	the vexations of my vexatious wives		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary i=Patient
4	vex			my vexatious wives			nom vexation «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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