--- title: He leaned back all weak and hiccoughy, and shook his finger at the B… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: He leaned back all weak and hiccoughy, and shook his finger at the Butterfly and said, ‘O great wizard, what is the sense of returning to me my Palace if at the same time you slay me with mirth!’ Who acts: Suleiman, great wizard, sense, you. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Bu --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/131/) [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/) / 131 # Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 131 He leaned back all weak and hiccoughy, and shook his finger at the Butterfly and said, ‘O great wizard, what is the sense of returning to me my Palace if at the same time you slay me with mirth!’ **Who acts:** Suleiman, great wizard, sense, you · **What happens:** learn back, shake, say, be, return, slay · **To what, where:** finger, sense, Palace, me · **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 (Suleiman, great wizard, sense, you), 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:pg2781:13:131 # text = He leaned back all weak and hiccoughy, and shook his finger at the Butterfly and said, ‘O great wizard, what is the sense of returning to me my Palace if at the same time you slay me with mirth!’ 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 leaned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 back back ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 all all ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 hiccoughy hiccoughy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Butterfly Butterfly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 O o INTJ UH _ 22 discourse _ _ 21 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 wizard wizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 27 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 28 of of SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 returning return VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 32 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 Palace Palace PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 34 if if SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 slay slay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 41 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 mirth mirth NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ! ! PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn back** | past | Suleiman | | | | | weak *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **shake** | past | Suleiman *not said here* | Suleiman's finger | | | | at the Butterfly | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent finger=Theme at butterfly=Trajectory | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Suleiman *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | great wizard | the sense | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **return** | gerund | the sense *not said here* | my Palace | me | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent palace=Theme to i=Destination | | 6 | **slay** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | me | | | time | with mirth | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent i=Patient with mirth=Instrument | 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 130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/130/) - next →: [sentence 132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/132/) - ↑ back to [The Butterfly That Stamped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/)