Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 55
The Butterfly looked at Suleiman-bin-Daoud and saw the most wise King’s eye twinkle like stars on a frosty night, and he picked up his courage with both wings, and he put his head on one side and said, ‘O King, live for ever.
Who acts: Butterfly, wise King · What happens: look, see, pick up, put, say, live · To what, where: eye twinkle, courage, head, one side · 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 (Butterfly, wise King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Butterfly | det |
| 2 | Butterfly | Butterfly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Daoud | case |
| 5 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Daoud | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Suleiman | punct |
| 7 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Daoud | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 bin | punct |
| 9 | Daoud | Daoud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 wise | advmod |
| 14 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 King | amod |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 twinkle | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 King | case |
| 17 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 twinkle | compound |
| 18 | twinkle | twinkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 stars | case |
| 20 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 twinkle | nmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 night | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 night | det |
| 23 | frosty | frosty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 night | amod |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 picked | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 picked | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 picked | nsubj |
| 28 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 picked | compound:prt |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 courage | nmod:poss |
| 31 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 picked | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 wings | case |
| 33 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 wings | det |
| 34 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 picked | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 put | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 put | cc |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 put | nsubj |
| 38 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 picked | conj |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 head | nmod:poss |
| 40 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 put | obj |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 side | case |
| 42 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 side | nummod |
| 43 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 put | obl |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 said | cc |
| 45 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 picked | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 live | punct |
| 47 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 51 live | punct |
| 48 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 49 King | case |
| 49 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 live | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 live | punct |
| 51 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 said | ccomp |
| 52 | for | for | ADP | _ | 53 ever | case |
| 53 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 51 live | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the Butterfly | at Suleiman bin Daoud | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at daoud=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the Butterfly not said here | the wise King's eye twinkle | night | like stars | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer twinkle=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | pick up | past | Butterfly | Butterfly's courage | with both wings | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Topic | |||
| 4 | put | past | Butterfly | Butterfly's head | one side | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme on side=Destination | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Butterfly not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | live | present | of King | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | twinkle | the wise King | like stars | nom twinkle «event intransitive»: poss=agent like=obl |
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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