Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 80
If it pleases my husband to believe that I believe he can make Suleiman-bin-Daoud’s Palace disappear by stamping his foot, I’m sure I don’t care.
Who acts: I, husband, Palace · What happens: please, believe, make, disappear, stamp, be · To what, where: half, Palace, foot · 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 (I, husband, Palace), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2781:1056): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 pleases | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pleases | expl |
| 3 | pleases | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 sure | advcl |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 husband | nmod:poss |
| 5 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pleases | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 believe | mark |
| 7 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pleases | csubj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 believe | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 believe | nsubj |
| 10 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 believe | ccomp |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 make | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 make | aux |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 believe | ccomp |
| 14 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Palace | nmod:poss |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 bin | punct |
| 16 | bin | bin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Suleiman | flat |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Daoud | punct |
| 18 | Daoud | Daoud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Suleiman | flat |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Suleiman | case |
| 20 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 21 | disappear | disappear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 make | xcomp |
| 22 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 23 stamping | mark |
| 23 | stamping | stamp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 make | advcl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 foot | nmod:poss |
| 25 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stamping | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pleases | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 sure | nsubj |
| 28 | ’m | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 sure | cop |
| 29 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 care | nsubj |
| 31 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 care | aux |
| 32 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 care | advmod |
| 33 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 sure | ccomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | please a condition, not said to happen | present | I not said here | half | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus husband=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | believe | to-infinitive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | believe | present | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | make | can | husband | Suleiman's Palace | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | disappear | infinitive | Suleiman's Palace not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | stamp | gerund | husband not said here | husband's foot | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Destination | ||||
| 7 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | not care | present · do-support | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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