Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 69

‘Well,’ said the Butterfly, fanning himself most importantly, ‘between you and me, my dear--of course I don’t blame him, because his Palace must have cost a great deal and the oranges are just ripening,--he asked me not to stamp, and I promised I wouldn’t.’

Who acts: Butterfly, I, Palace, great deal · What happens: say, fan, not blame, cost, ripen, ask · To what, where: Butterfly, me · 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, I, Palace, great deal), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Butterfly	det
7	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fanning	punct
9	fanning	fan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 fanning	obj
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	12 importantly	advmod
12	importantly	importantly	ADV	_	9 fanning	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dear	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 dear	punct
15	between	between	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 dear	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 me	cc
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 you	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dear	punct
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 dear	nmod:poss
21	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	parataxis
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 blame	punct
23	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	28 blame	advmod
24	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 of	fixed
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 blame	nsubj
26	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 blame	aux
27	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 blame	advmod
28	blame	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 dear	parataxis
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 blame	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 cost	punct
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	36 cost	mark
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 Palace	nmod:poss
33	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 cost	nsubj
34	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 cost	aux
35	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 cost	aux
36	cost	cost	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 blame	parataxis
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 deal	det
38	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 deal	amod
39	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 ripening	nsubj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 oranges	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 oranges	det
42	oranges	orange	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 deal	conj
43	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 ripening	aux
44	just	just	ADV	_	45 ripening	advmod
45	ripening	ripen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 cost	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 asked	punct
47	--	--	PUNCT	_	49 asked	punct
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 asked	nsubj
49	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 stamp	advcl
50	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 asked	iobj
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 stamp	advmod
52	to	to	PART	_	53 stamp	mark
53	stamp	stamp	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	45 ripening	parataxis
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 promised	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 promised	cc
56	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 promised	nsubj
57	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 cost	advcl
58	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 would	nsubj
59	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 promised	ccomp
60	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	59 would	advmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
62	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Butterfly				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	fan	gerund	the Butterfly not said here	Butterfly		importantly property	tree rules
3	not blame	present · do-support	I	Butterfly			vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	cost	must · perfect	Butterfly's Palace				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
5	ripen	present · progressive	a great deal and the oranges				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	ask speech: ask	past	Butterfly		me		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
7	not stamp	to-infinitive					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	promise speech: promise	past	I				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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