Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 157

Tell me, therefore, O my Lady and Heart of my Heart, how did you come to be so wise?’

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, come, be · To what, where: Lady · 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 (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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 therefore	punct
4	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Lady	punct
6	O	o	INTJ	_	8 Lady	discourse
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 Lady	nmod:poss
8	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	iobj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Heart	cc
10	Heart	Heart	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Lady	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Heart	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 Heart	nmod:poss
13	Heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Lady	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 come	advmod
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 come	nsubj
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	22 wise	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 wise	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 wise	advmod
22	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 come	advcl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	my Lady of my Heart and Heart	therefore property	tree rules
2	come	past · do-support	you			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive	you not said here		wise property	tree rules

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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