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title: Balkis the Most Beautiful stood up behind the tree among the red lil… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Balkis the Most Beautiful stood up behind the tree among the red lilies and smiled to herself, for she had heard all this talk. Who acts: Balkis. 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 71

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Balkis the Most Beautiful stood up behind the tree among the red lilies and smiled to herself, for she had heard all this talk.

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**Who acts:** Balkis · **What happens:** stand up, smile, hear · **To what, where:** tree, Balkis, talk

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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), 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:pg2781:13:71
# text = Balkis the Most Beautiful stood up behind the tree among the red lilies and smiled to herself, for she had heard all this talk.
1	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	Beautiful	Beautiful	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	among	among	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand up** | past | Balkis |  |  | the tree |  | among the red lilies | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind tree=Location |
| 2 | **smile** | past | Balkis *not said here* |  | Balkis |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient |
| 3 | **hear** | past · perfect | Balkis | all talk |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer talk=Stimulus |

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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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