Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 37

Of course if he had chosen to turn his ring on his finger and call up the Djinns and the Afrits they would have magicked all those nine hundred and ninety-nine quarrelsome wives into white mules of the desert or greyhounds or pomegranate seeds; but Suleiman-bin-Daoud thought that that would be showing off.

Who acts: part, Suleiman, that · What happens: choose, turn, call up, magick, think, show off · To what, where: ring, finger, Djinns, Afrits

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, Suleiman, that), 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	Of	of	SCONJ	_	6 chosen	mark
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 chosen	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chosen	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chosen	aux
6	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 turn	mark
8	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 chosen	xcomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ring	nmod:poss
10	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turn	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 finger	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 finger	nmod:poss
13	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turn	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 call	cc
15	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 turn	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 call	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Djinns	det
18	Djinns	Djinn	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 call	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 magicked	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Afrits	det
21	Afrits	afrit	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 magicked	nsubj:pass
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 magicked	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 magicked	aux
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 magicked	aux
25	magicked	magick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 Djinns	conj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 hundred	det:predet
27	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 hundred	nsubj
28	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 hundred	compound
29	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 wives	nummod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 ninety	cc
31	ninety	ninety	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 hundred	conj
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 ninety	punct
33	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 wives	nummod
34	quarrelsome	quarrelsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 wives	amod
35	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 magicked	obl
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 mules	case
37	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 mules	amod
38	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 magicked	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 desert	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 desert	det
41	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 mules	nmod
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 greyhounds	cc
43	greyhounds	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 desert	conj
44	or	or	CCONJ	_	46 seeds	cc
45	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 seeds	compound
46	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 greyhounds	conj
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 thought	punct
48	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 thought	cc
49	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 thought	nsubj
50	-	-	PUNCT	_	49 Suleiman	punct
51	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 Suleiman	flat
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 bin	punct
53	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Suleiman	flat
54	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chosen	parataxis
55	that	that	SCONJ	_	59 showing	mark
56	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	59 showing	nsubj
57	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 showing	aux
58	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	59 showing	aux
59	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	54 thought	advcl
60	off	off	ADP	_	59 showing	compound:prt
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 chosen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	choose	past · perfect	part					tree rules
2	turn	to-infinitive	part not said here	part's ring		part's finger		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=Theme
3	call up speech: assert	infinitive	part not said here		the Djinns			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent djinn=Recipient
4	magick	would · perfect · passive		the Afrits			into white mules of the desert or greyhounds or pomegranate seeds; hundred nine quarrelsome wives obl	tree rules
5	think speech: other	past	Suleiman					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	show off	would · progressive	that					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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