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title: When he turned it twice, Fairies came down from the sky to do whatev… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: When he turned it twice, Fairies came down from the sky to do whatever he told them; and when he turned it three times, the very great angel Azrael of the Sword came dressed as a water-carrier, and told him the news of the three worlds, Above--Below--and Here. Who acts: Suleiman, Fairies. A sentence
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# Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 14

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When he turned it twice, Fairies came down from the sky to do whatever he told them; and when he turned it three times, the very great angel Azrael of the Sword came dressed as a water-carrier, and told him the news of the three worlds, Above--Below--and Here.

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**Who acts:** Suleiman, Fairies · **What happens:** turn, come down, do, tell, dress · **To what, where:** ring, sky, whatever, Fairies, great angel, news · **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 (Suleiman, Fairies), 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:pg2781:13:14
# text = When he turned it twice, Fairies came down from the sky to do whatever he told them; and when he turned it three times, the very great angel Azrael of the Sword came dressed as a water-carrier, and told him the news of the three worlds, Above--Below--and Here.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	Fairies	Fairy	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
15	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	Azrael	Azrael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Sword	Sword	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	carrier	carrier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
46	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	iobj	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	nummod	_	_
52	worlds	world	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	Above	above	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	--	--	PUNCT	:	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	Below	below	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	56	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | Suleiman | ring |  |  |  | twice *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **come down** | past | Fairies |  |  | the sky |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from sky=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | Fairies *not said here* | whatever |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Suleiman |  | Fairies *= fairy* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 5 | **turn** | past | Suleiman | ring |  |  | time |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **dress** | past · passive |  | the great angel |  |  |  | as a water carrier | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Fairies *not said here* | the news of the three worlds | Suleiman |  |  | below *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient news=Topic |

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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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