Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 72

She thought, ‘If I am wise I can yet save my Lord from the persecutions of these quarrelsome Queens,’ and she held out her finger and whispered softly to the Butterfly’s Wife, ‘Little woman, come here.’

Who acts: Balkis, I · What happens: think, be, save, hold out, whisper, come · To what, where: Lord, persecutions, finger, Wife, quarrelsome Queens · 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 (Balkis, I), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 save	punct
4	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 save	punct
5	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 wise	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 wise	nsubj
7	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wise	cop
8	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 save	advcl
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 save	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 save	aux
11	yet	yet	ADV	_	12 save	advmod
12	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 Lord	nmod:poss
14	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 save	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 persecutions	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 persecutions	det
17	persecutions	persecution	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 save	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 Queens	case
19	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 Queens	det
20	quarrelsome	quarrelsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Queens	amod
21	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 persecutions	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 save	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 save	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 held	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 held	nsubj
26	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 held	compound:prt
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 finger	nmod:poss
29	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 held	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 whispered	cc
31	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
32	softly	softly	ADV	_	31 whispered	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	37 Wife	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Butterfly	det
35	Butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Wife	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 Butterfly	case
37	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 whispered	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 woman	punct
39	‘	'	PUNCT	_	41 woman	punct
40	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 woman	amod
41	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Wife	appos
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 come	punct
43	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 whispered	parataxis
44	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 come	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	43 come	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	43 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Balkis						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	I					wise property	tree rules
3	save	can	I	my Lord		the persecutions of this quarrelsome Queens	yet		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lord=Theme from persecution=Source
4	hold out	past	Balkis	Balkis's finger					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme
5	whisper speech: assert	past	Balkis not said here		the Butterfly's Wife			softly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient
6	come	infinitive				here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	persecute			this quarrelsome Queens					nom persecution «act transitive»: of=patient

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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