Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 32

He didn’t really want nine-hundred and ninety-nine wives, but in those days everybody married ever so many wives, and of course the King had to marry ever so many more just to show that he was the King.

Who acts: part, everybody · What happens: not do, want, marry, have, show, be · To what, where: hundred nine wives, many wives, many more, King · 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 (part, everybody), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 did	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	advcl
6	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hundred	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 nine	punct
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 wives	nummod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ninety	cc
10	ninety	ninety	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hundred	conj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 ninety	punct
12	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 wives	nummod
13	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 want	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 married	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 married	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 days	case
17	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 days	det
18	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 married	obl
19	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	20 married	nsubj
20	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
21	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 married	advmod
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 many	advmod
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wives	amod
24	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 married	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 had	cc
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 King	case
28	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 of	fixed
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 King	det
30	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 had	obl
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 married	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 marry	mark
33	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 had	xcomp
34	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 marry	advmod
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 many	advmod
36	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 more	amod
37	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 marry	obj
38	just	just	ADV	_	40 show	advmod
39	to	to	PART	_	40 show	mark
40	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 marry	advcl
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 King	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 King	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 King	cop
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 King	det
45	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 show	ccomp
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	part				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	present	part not said here	hundred nine wives			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wife=Theme
3	marry	past	everybody	many wives	ever; day		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
4	have	past	everybody not said here			of the King	tree rules
5	marry	to-infinitive	everybody not said here	many more	ever		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
6	show	to-infinitive	everybody not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past	part	the King			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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