--- title: ‘Well,’ said the Butterfly, fanning himself most importantly, ‘betwe… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Well,’ said the Butterfly, fanning himself most importantly, ‘between you and me, my dear--of course I don’t blame him, because his Palace must have cost a great deal and the oranges are just ripening,--he asked me not to stamp, and I promised I wouldn’t.’ Who acts: Butterfly, I, Palace, great deal --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/69/) [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/) / 69 # Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 69 ‘Well,’ said the Butterfly, fanning himself most importantly, ‘between you and me, my dear--of course I don’t blame him, because his Palace must have cost a great deal and the oranges are just ripening,--he asked me not to stamp, and I promised I wouldn’t.’ **Who acts:** Butterfly, I, Palace, great deal · **What happens:** say, fan, not blame, cost, ripen, ask · **To what, where:** Butterfly, me · **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 (Butterfly, I, Palace, great deal), 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:pg2781:13:69 # text = ‘Well,’ said the Butterfly, fanning himself most importantly, ‘between you and me, my dear--of course I don’t blame him, because his Palace must have cost a great deal and the oranges are just ripening,--he asked me not to stamp, and I promised I wouldn’t.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Butterfly Butterfly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 fanning fan VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 10 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 9 obj _ _ 11 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 12 advmod _ _ 12 importantly importantly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 14 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 between between ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 22 -- -- PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 of of ADP IN ExtPos=ADV 28 advmod _ _ 24 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 fixed _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 27 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 blame blame VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 parataxis _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 because because SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 Palace Palace PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 34 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux _ _ 36 cost cost VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 parataxis _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 oranges orange NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 conj _ _ 43 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 44 just just ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 ripening ripen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 -- -- PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 53 advcl _ _ 50 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 49 iobj _ _ 51 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 53 advmod _ _ 52 to to PART TO _ 53 mark _ _ 53 stamp stamp VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 45 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 56 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 57 promised promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 58 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 59 nsubj _ _ 59 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 57 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 60 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 59 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 61 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 62 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Butterfly | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **fan** | gerund | the Butterfly *not said here* | Butterfly | | | | importantly *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **blame** | present · do-support | I | Butterfly | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 4 | **cost** | must · perfect | Butterfly's Palace | | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **ripen** | present · progressive | a great deal and the oranges | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Butterfly | | me | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 7 | **not** **stamp** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | I | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/70/) - ↑ back to [The Butterfly That Stamped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/)