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title: That is our trouble, O Head Queen, and we are most extremely trouble… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: That is our trouble, O Head Queen, and we are most extremely troubled on account of that trouble, for it was a troublesome trouble, unlike any trouble we have known.’ Who acts: That, we, marble. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly That Stamped, with its dependency tree 
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# Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 136

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That is our trouble, O Head Queen, and we are most extremely troubled on account of that trouble, for it was a troublesome trouble, unlike any trouble we have known.’

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**Who acts:** That, we, marble · **What happens:** be, know, account · **To what, where:** trouble, account

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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 (That, we, marble), 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:pg2781:13:136
# text = That is our trouble, O Head Queen, and we are most extremely troubled on account of that trouble, for it was a troublesome trouble, unlike any trouble we have known.’
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	Head	Head	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	troubled	troubled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	troublesome	troublesome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | That | our trouble |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | we |  |  | account of that trouble |  | extremely, troubled *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | marble |  |  |  |  | for a troublesome trouble; unlike any trouble | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | present · perfect | we | any trouble *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer trouble=Stimulus |
| 5 | **account** |  |  | that trouble |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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