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title: Then came a terrible noise, for all the nine hundred and ninety-nine… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then came a terrible noise, for all the nine hundred and ninety-nine Queens ran out of the Palace shrieking and shouting and calling for their babies. Who acts: terrible noise, nine Queens, Palace shrieking. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly That Stamped, with its dep
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# Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 132

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Then came a terrible noise, for all the nine hundred and ninety-nine Queens ran out of the Palace shrieking and shouting and calling for their babies.

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**Who acts:** terrible noise, nine Queens, Palace shrieking · **What happens:** come, run, shout, call · **To what, where:** Palace shrieking · **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: who acts (terrible noise, nine Queens, Palace shrieking), 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:pg2781:13:132
# text = Then came a terrible noise, for all the nine hundred and ninety-nine Queens ran out of the Palace shrieking and shouting and calling for their babies.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	ninety	ninety	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	Queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	shrieking	shrieking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a terrible noise |  |  |  | then | for all nine hundred | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | past | nine Queens |  |  | the Palace shrieking |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out shrieking=Trajectory |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | the Palace shrieking *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **call** | gerund | the Palace shrieking *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for trees's babies | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for baby=Recipient |

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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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