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title: ‘Yes, give him back his Palace,’ said the Butterfly’s Wife, still fl… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Yes, give him back his Palace,’ said the Butterfly’s Wife, still flying about in the dark like a moth. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly That Stamped, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 123

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‘Yes, give him back his Palace,’ said the Butterfly’s Wife, still flying about in the dark like a moth.

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**What happens:** give back, say, fly · **To what, where:** Palace, Wife · **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: 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:pg2781:13:123
# text = ‘Yes, give him back his Palace,’ said the Butterfly’s Wife, still flying about in the dark like a moth.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	back	back	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	Wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	still	still	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	moth	moth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give back** | infinitive |  | palace's Palace | palace |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient palace=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the Butterfly's Wife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  | still | about the dark; like a moth | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about dark=Location |

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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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