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title: So he stamped once more, and that instant the Djinns let down the Pa… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: So he stamped once more, and that instant the Djinns let down the Palace and the gardens, without even a bump. Who acts: Butterfly, that. 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 127

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So he stamped once more, and that instant the Djinns let down the Palace and the gardens, without even a bump.

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**Who acts:** Butterfly, that · **What happens:** stamp, instant, let down · **To what, where:** Djinns, Palace

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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, that), 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:pg2781:13:127
# text = So he stamped once more, and that instant the Djinns let down the Palace and the gardens, without even a bump.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stamped	stamp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
9	instant	instant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Djinns	djinn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	without	without	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bump	bump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stamp** | past | Butterfly |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **instant** | past | that | the Djinns |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **let down** | infinitive | that *not said here* | the Palace and the gardens |  |  |  | without a bump | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme |

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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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