--- title: He didn’t really want nine-hundred and ninety-nine wives, but in tho… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: He didn’t really want nine-hundred and ninety-nine wives, but in those days everybody married ever so many wives, and of course the King had to marry ever so many more just to show that he was the King. Who acts: part, everybody. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly That --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/32/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Just so stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/) / [The Butterfly That Stamped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/) / 32 # Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 32 He didn’t really want nine-hundred and ninety-nine wives, but in those days everybody married ever so many wives, and of course the King had to marry ever so many more just to show that he was the King. **Who acts:** part, everybody · **What happens:** not do, want, marry, have, show, be · **To what, where:** hundred nine wives, many wives, many more, King · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (part, everybody), 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:pg2781:13:32 # text = He didn’t really want nine-hundred and ninety-nine wives, but in those days everybody married ever so many wives, and of course the King had to marry ever so many more just to show that he was the King. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 4 really really ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 6 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 ninety ninety NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 wives wife NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 18 det _ _ 18 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 19 everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 20 nsubj _ _ 20 married marry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 21 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 20 advmod _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 wives wife NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 fixed _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 31 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 33 advmod _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 obj _ _ 38 just just ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 41 that that SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 43 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **do** | past | part | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **want** | present | part *not said here* | hundred nine wives | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wife=Theme | | 3 | **marry** | past | everybody | many wives | | | ever; day | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | | 4 | **have** | past | everybody *not said here* | | | | | of the King | tree rules | | 5 | **marry** | to-infinitive | everybody *not said here* | many more | | | ever | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient | | 6 | **show** | to-infinitive | everybody *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** | past | part | the King | | | | | 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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/33/) - ↑ back to [The Butterfly That Stamped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/)