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title: THERE was never a Queen like Balkis, From here to the wide world’s e… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: THERE was never a Queen like Balkis, From here to the wide world’s end; But Balkis talked to a butterfly As you would talk to a friend. Who acts: Balkis, you. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly That Stamped, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 161

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THERE was never a Queen like Balkis, From here to the wide world’s end; But Balkis talked to a butterfly As you would talk to a friend.

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**Who acts:** Balkis, you · **What happens:** not be, talk · **To what, where:** Queen

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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 (Balkis, you), 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:pg2781:13:161
# text = THERE was never a Queen like Balkis, From here to the wide world’s end; But Balkis talked to a butterfly As you would talk to a friend.
1	THERE	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	From	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **be** | past |  | a Queen like Balkis |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **talk** | past | Balkis |  |  |  |  | to a butterfly | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to butterfly=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **talk** | would | you |  |  |  |  | to a friend | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to friend=Co-Agent |

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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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