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title: ‘Give him back his Palace, and don’t let’s have any more horrid.magi… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Give him back his Palace, and don’t let’s have any more horrid.magic.’ Who acts: you, ’s. 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 124

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‘Give him back his Palace, and don’t let’s have any more horrid.magic.’

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**Who acts:** you, ’s · **What happens:** give back, not let, have · **To what, where:** Palace, ’s

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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 (you, ’s), 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:pg2781:13:124
# text = ‘Give him back his Palace, and don’t let’s have any more horrid.magic.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	back	back	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	nsubj	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	horrid.magic	horrid.magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give back** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | palace's Palace |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient palace=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **let** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | ’s |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | infinitive | ’s *not said here* |  |  |  |  | horrid.magic *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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