--- title: They hurried down the great marble steps below the fountain, one hun… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: They hurried down the great marble steps below the fountain, one hundred abreast, and the Most Wise Balkis went statelily forward to meet them and said, ‘What is your trouble, O Queens?’ Who acts: babies, Wise Balkis. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (babies, Wise Balkis), 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:pg2781:13:133 # text = They hurried down the great marble steps below the fountain, one hundred abreast, and the Most Wise Balkis went statelily forward to meet them and said, ‘What is your trouble, O Queens?’ 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hurried hurry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 down down ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 marble marble NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 8 below below ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 fountain fountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 compound _ _ 13 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nmod _ _ 14 abreast abreast ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 19 amod _ _ 19 Wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 Balkis Balkis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 statelily statelily ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 forward forward ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 34 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 O o INTJ UH _ 37 discourse _ _ 37 Queens queen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ? ? PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hurry down** | past | babies *= baby* | the great marble steps | | the fountain one hundred | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent step=Theme below fountain=Trajectory | | 2 | **go** | past | the Wise Balkis | | | | | forward, statelily *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive | the Wise Balkis *not said here* | babies *= baby* | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | babies *= baby* *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | | your trouble and Queens | | | | | tree rules | 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 132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/132/) - next →: [sentence 134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/134/) - ↑ back to [The Butterfly That Stamped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/)