--- title: But by means of your wisdom I made the magic for the sake of a jest… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: But by means of your wisdom I made the magic for the sake of a jest and for the sake of a little Butterfly, and--behold--it has also delivered me from the vexations of my vexatious wives! Who acts: I. 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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 (I), 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:pg2781:13:156 # text = But by means of your wisdom I made the magic for the sake of a jest and for the sake of a little Butterfly, and--behold--it has also delivered me from the vexations of my vexatious wives! 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 by by ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 wisdom wisdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 magic magic NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 sake sake NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 jest jest NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 sake sake NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 Butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 27 -- -- PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 behold behold INTJ UH _ 33 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 29 -- -- PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 also also ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 delivered deliver VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 34 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 from from ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 vexations vexation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 40 vexatious vexatious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 wives wife NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **make** | past | I | the magic | | | | of your wisdom; for the sake of a jest and the sake of a little Butterfly | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent magic=Product for sake=Asset | | 3 | **deliver** | present · perfect · passive | | magic | | the vexations of my vexatious wives | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary i=Patient | | 4 | **vex** | | | my vexatious wives | | | | | nom vexation «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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 155](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/155/) - next →: [sentence 157](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/157/) - ↑ back to [The Butterfly That Stamped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/)