--- title: ‘No, little brother,’ said Suleiman-bin-Daoud, ‘she will never laugh… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: ‘No, little brother,’ said Suleiman-bin-Daoud, ‘she will never laugh at you again,’ and he turned the ring on his finger--just for the little Butterfly’s sake, not for the sake of showing off,--and, lo and behold, four huge Djinns came out of the earth! Who acts: little brother, Balkis, Suleiman, sa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/106/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Just so stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/) / [The Butterfly That Stamped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/) / 106 # Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 106 ‘No, little brother,’ said Suleiman-bin-Daoud, ‘she will never laugh at you again,’ and he turned the ring on his finger--just for the little Butterfly’s sake, not for the sake of showing off,--and, lo and behold, four huge Djinns came out of the earth! **Who acts:** little brother, Balkis, Suleiman, sake, four huge Djinns · **What happens:** say, not laugh, turn, show off, come out · **To what, where:** ring, finger, earth · **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 (little brother, Balkis, Suleiman, sake), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2781:13:106 # text = ‘No, little brother,’ said Suleiman-bin-Daoud, ‘she will never laugh at you again,’ and he turned the ring on his finger--just for the little Butterfly’s sake, not for the sake of showing off,--and, lo and behold, four huge Djinns came out of the earth! 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 Suleiman Suleiman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 Daoud Daoud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 22 again again ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 -- -- PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 just just ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 Butterfly Butterfly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ’s 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 sake sake NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 43 for for ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 sake sake NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 46 of of SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 47 showing show VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 45 acl _ _ 48 off off ADP RP _ 47 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 -- -- PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 53 lo lo INTJ UH _ 40 conj _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 55 behold behold INTJ UH _ 53 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 57 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 59 nummod _ _ 58 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 amod _ _ 59 Djinns djinn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 60 nsubj _ _ 60 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 61 out out ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 62 of of ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 64 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 65 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | little brother | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **laugh** | future | Balkis | | | | again | at you | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **turn** | past | Suleiman | the ring | | Suleiman's finger | | for the little Butterfly's sake and the sake | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | | 4 | **show off** | gerund | the sake *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **come out** | past | four huge Djinns | the earth | | | | | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient earth=Result | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/105/) - next →: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/107/) - ↑ back to [The Butterfly That Stamped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/)