Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 53

Suleiman-bin-Daoud bent his head and whispered very softly, ‘Little man, you know that all your stamping wouldn’t bend one blade of grass.

Who acts: Suleiman, you, stamping · What happens: bend, whisper, know, not bend · To what, where: head, Little man, one blade · 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 (Suleiman, you, stamping), 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	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bent	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Suleiman	punct
3	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Suleiman	flat
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 bin	punct
5	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Suleiman	flat
6	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bent	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 whispered	cc
10	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bent	conj
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 softly	advmod
12	softly	softly	ADV	_	10 whispered	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 man	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 man	punct
15	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 whispered	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
19	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bent	parataxis
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 bend	mark
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 stamping	det:predet
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 stamping	nmod:poss
23	stamping	stamping	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bend	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 bend	aux
25	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 bend	advmod
26	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 know	ccomp
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 blade	nummod
28	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bend	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 grass	case
30	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 blade	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bend	past	Suleiman	Suleiman's head		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material
2	whisper speech: assert	past	Suleiman not said here	Little man	softly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	know	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	not bend	would	your stamping	one blade of grass		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent blade=Material

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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