--- title: Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends», a lesson of the books course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Balkis has heard everything. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / Just So Stories, The Butterfly that St… # Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends Lesson 97 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 32 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/0/) — Balkis has heard everything. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/1/) — She calls the Butterfly's Wife to her finger and gives her a plan: next time he boasts, take him at his word and dare him to stamp. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/2/) — Soon the two butterflies are quarrelling again, and the Wife cries «Stamp! - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/3/) — Stamp!» The Butterfly flies back to Suleiman in a panic: now his wife will laugh at him for ever. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/4/) — «She will never laugh at you again,» says Suleiman, and for the Butterfly's sake, not to show off, he turns his ring. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/5/) — Four huge Djinns come out of the earth. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/6/) — The Butterfly stamps, the Djinns jerk the Palace and gardens a thousand miles into the air, thunder crashes, and all goes inky black. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/7/) — The Wife begs him to bring it back; he stamps again, and the Palace comes down without a bump. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/8/) — The quarrelling Queens rush out, terrified. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/9/) — Balkis tells them calmly that a Butterfly complained about his wife, and the King taught her a lesson. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/11/) — The King's troubles are over. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/12/) — Suleiman did not even know about the Queens; he had only been playing a joke with a Butterfly. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/13/) — Balkis explains it was her plan, and that she was wise «First, O my Lord, because I loved you». - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/14/) — They live happily ever after, and Kipling asks: «But wasn't it clever of Balkis?» - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/16/) — Balkis to the Butterfly's Wife: «next time he begins to boast, take him at his word. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/17/) — Ask him to stamp, and see what will happen.» - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/18/) — The Wife: «I don't believe you one little bit ... - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/19/) — I dare you to do it ... - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/23/) — In the dark the Wife cries: «Oh, I'll be good! - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/24/) — I'm so sorry I spoke! - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/25/) — Only bring the gardens back». - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/27/) — The Butterfly says, as bravely as he can: «Of course it doesn't make any difference to me, I'm used to this kind of thing.» - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/28/) — Suleiman: «O great wizard, what is the sense of returning to me my Palace if at the same time you slay me with mirth!» (mirth = laughter) - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/30/) — An Egyptian Queen thinks Suleiman must be dead. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/31/) — Balkis's words to Suleiman: «First, O my Lord, because I loved you; and secondly, O my Lord, because I know what women-folk are.» The story's jokes about «what women-folk are» and «what men-folk are» belong to 1902; real people do not all fit such ideas. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/32/) — The end-poem says Balkis and Solomon both talk to butterflies as you would talk to a friend. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/33/) — Suleiman: if he had made a magic «for the sake of pride or anger», he would have been shamed, but this one was «for the sake of a jest and for the sake of a little Butterfly». - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/34/) — The book: Just So Stories was published in 1902 by Rudyard Kipling (born in Bombay, now Mumbai, India, in 1865); he drew the pictures himself. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/35/) — In 1907 he became the first English-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/36/) — «Just so»: Kipling wrote that the bedtime stories for his little daughter had to be told exactly the same way each time, «just so», with not one word changed; she was the first Best Beloved. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/37/) — The book also holds words and ideas of 1902 about some peoples of the world that are hurtful and wrong today; we read it as an old book and say so plainly. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/39/) — Real answers come from looking, testing and evidence. - ← previous: [Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/)