Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 42

Now, if I showed off before these Queens of Persia and Egypt and Abyssinia and China, merely because they worry me, I might be made even more ashamed than I have been.’

Who acts: I, Egypt · What happens: show off, worry, make, be · To what, where: me, I

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 (I, Egypt), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 showed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 showed	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 showed	nsubj
5	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 showed	compound:prt
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 Queens	case
8	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 Queens	det
9	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 showed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Persia	case
11	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Queens	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Egypt	cc
13	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Persia	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Abyssinia	cc
15	Abyssinia	Abyssinia	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Persia	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 China	cc
17	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Persia	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 worry	punct
19	merely	merely	ADV	_	22 worry	advmod
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 worry	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 worry	nsubj
22	worry	worry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 showed	parataxis
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 worry	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 made	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 made	nsubj:pass
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 made	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 made	aux:pass
28	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 showed	conj
29	even	even	ADV	_	30 more	advmod
30	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 ashamed	advmod
31	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 made	xcomp
32	than	than	SCONJ	_	35 been	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 been	nsubj
34	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 been	aux
35	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 ashamed	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 showed	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	show off	past	I		before this Queens of Persia and Egypt and Abyssinia and China; now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	worry	present	Egypt	me		merely property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
3	make	might · passive		I		ashamed property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	be	present · perfect	I				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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