Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 54

What made you tell that awful fib to your wife?--for doubtless she is your wife.’

Who acts: you, stamping · What happens: make, tell, be · To what, where: you, awful fib, wife · 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 (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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 fib	det
6	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fib	amod
7	fib	fib	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 wife	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 wife	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 doubtless	case
14	doubtless	doubtless	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wife	obl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wife	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 wife	cop
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wife	nmod:poss
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	parataxis
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 wife	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 wife	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	past		you			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	that awful fib	your wife		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent fib=Topic to wife=Recipient
3	is a	present	stamping	your wife		for doubtless	tree rules

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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