Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 49

Don’t you know that if I stamped with my foot all Suleiman-bin-Daoud’s Palace and this garden here would immediately vanish in a clap of thunder.’

Who acts: you, I, garden · What happens: not do, know, stamp, vanish, clap · To what, where: Palace, clap, thunder

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 (you, I, garden), 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	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	advcl
2	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Do	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 stamped	mark
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 stamped	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 stamped	nsubj
8	stamped	stamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	ccomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 foot	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 foot	nmod:poss
11	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stamped	obl
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 Palace	det
13	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Palace	nsubj
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	19 Palace	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 Daoud	case
19	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 stamped	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 vanish	cc
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 garden	det
22	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 vanish	nsubj
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 garden	advmod
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 vanish	aux
25	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	26 vanish	advmod
26	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 stamped	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 clap	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 clap	det
29	clap	clap	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 vanish	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 thunder	case
31	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 clap	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not do	infinitive	you not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	know	present	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	stamp a condition, not said to happen	past	I		Daoud's Palace		with my foot	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent palace=Destination with foot=Theme
4	vanish	would	this garden			a clap of thunder	immediately property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	clap			thunder				nom clap «event transitive»: of=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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