Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 38

So, when they quarrelled too much, he only walked by himself in one part of the beautiful Palace gardens and wished he had never been born.

Who acts: Afrits, Suleiman · What happens: quarrell, walk, wish, not bear · To what, where: much, one part, Suleiman · 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 (Afrits, Suleiman), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 quarrelled	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 quarrelled	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 quarrelled	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 quarrelled	nsubj
5	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 quarrelled	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 walked	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 walked	nsubj
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 walked	advmod
11	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 quarrelled	parataxis
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 himself	case
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 walked	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 part	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 part	nummod
16	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 walked	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	21 gardens	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 gardens	det
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 gardens	amod
20	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 gardens	compound
21	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 part	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 wished	cc
23	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 walked	conj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 born	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 born	aux
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 born	advmod
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 born	aux:pass
28	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 wished	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 quarrelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	quarrell	past	Afrits = afrit	much			tree rules
2	walk	past	Suleiman		one part of the beautiful Palace gardens	by Suleiman	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by himself=Trajectory
3	wish	past	Suleiman not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	not bear	past · perfect · passive		Suleiman			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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