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title: Presently the Butterfly, very hot and puffy, came whirling back unde… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Presently the Butterfly, very hot and puffy, came whirling back under the shadow of the camphor-tree and said to Suleiman, ‘She wants me to stamp! Who acts: Butterfly, Balkis, me. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly That Stamped, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 102

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Presently the Butterfly, very hot and puffy, came whirling back under the shadow of the camphor-tree and said to Suleiman, ‘She wants me to stamp!

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**Who acts:** Butterfly, Balkis, me · **What happens:** come, whirl back, say, want, stamp, shadow · **To what, where:** shadow, Suleiman, me, camphor tree · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Balkis, me), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2781:13:102
# text = Presently the Butterfly, very hot and puffy, came whirling back under the shadow of the camphor-tree and said to Suleiman, ‘She wants me to stamp!
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	puffy	puffy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	whirling	whirl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	camphor	camphor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	stamp	stamp	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Butterfly |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **whirl back** | gerund | the Butterfly *not said here* |  |  | the shadow of the camphor tree |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme under shadow=Trajectory |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Butterfly *not said here* |  | Suleiman |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to suleiman=Recipient |
| 4 | **want** | present | Balkis | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **stamp** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **shadow** |  |  | the camphor tree |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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