Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 70

‘Gracious!’ said his wife, and sat quite quiet; but Suleiman-bin-Daoud laughed till the tears ran down his face at the impudence of the bad little Butterfly.

Who acts: Suleiman, tears · What happens: say, sit, laugh, run down · To what, where: wife, face, impudence · 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, tears), 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	_	2 Gracious	punct
2	Gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Gracious	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Gracious	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sat	cc
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
11	quite	quite	ADV	_	12 quiet	advmod
12	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sat	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 laughed	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 laughed	cc
15	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 laughed	nsubj
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Suleiman	punct
17	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Suleiman	flat
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 bin	punct
19	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Suleiman	flat
20	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
21	till	till	SCONJ	_	24 ran	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tears	det
23	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 ran	nsubj
24	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 laughed	advcl
25	down	down	ADP	_	24 ran	compound:prt
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 face	nmod:poss
27	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ran	obj
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 impudence	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 impudence	det
30	impudence	impudence	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ran	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	35 Butterfly	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Butterfly	det
33	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Butterfly	amod
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Butterfly	amod
35	Butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 impudence	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		Butterfly's wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic
2	sit	past				quiet property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	laugh	past	Suleiman				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	run down	past	the tears	Butterfly's face	the impudence of the bad little Butterfly		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location face=Theme

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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