Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 158

And Balkis the Queen, beautiful and tall, looked up into Suleiman-bin-Daoud’s eyes and put her head a little on one side, just like the Butterfly, and said, ‘First, O my Lord, because I loved you; and secondly, O my Lord, because I know what women-folk are.’

Who acts: Balkis, I, women folk · What happens: look up, put, say, love, know, be · To what, where: head, one side, you · 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 (Balkis, I, women folk), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 looked	cc
2	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 looked	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Queen	det
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Balkis	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 beautiful	punct
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Balkis	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tall	cc
8	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beautiful	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Balkis	punct
10	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 looked	compound:prt
12	into	into	ADP	_	19 eyes	case
13	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 eyes	nmod:poss
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Suleiman	punct
15	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Suleiman	flat
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 bin	punct
17	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Suleiman	flat
18	’s	's	PART	_	13 Suleiman	case
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 looked	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 put	cc
21	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 looked	conj
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 little	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 put	obl:unmarked
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 side	case
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 side	nummod
28	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Butterfly	punct
30	just	just	ADV	_	33 Butterfly	advmod
31	like	like	ADP	_	33 Butterfly	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Butterfly	det
33	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 said	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 said	cc
36	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 looked	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 First	punct
38	‘	'	PUNCT	_	39 First	punct
39	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	36 said	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 Lord	punct
41	O	o	INTJ	_	43 Lord	discourse
42	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 Lord	nmod:poss
43	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 First	vocative
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 loved	punct
45	because	because	SCONJ	_	47 loved	mark
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 loved	nsubj
47	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 said	conj
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 loved	obj
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 secondly	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 secondly	cc
51	secondly	secondly	ADV	_	10 looked	advmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 Lord	punct
53	O	o	INTJ	_	55 Lord	discourse
54	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 Lord	nmod:poss
55	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 secondly	vocative
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 know	punct
57	because	because	SCONJ	_	59 know	mark
58	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 know	nsubj
59	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 looked	parataxis
60	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	59 know	ccomp
61	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 folk	compound
62	-	-	PUNCT	_	61 women	punct
63	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 what	nsubj
64	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	60 what	cop
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 looked	punct
66	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look up	past	Balkis			into Suleiman's eyes; secondly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme
2	put	infinitive	Balkis not said here	Balkis's head	one side	like the Butterfly; a little obl:unmarked	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme on side=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past				first property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	love	past	I	you			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
5	know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	present	women folk				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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