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title: Up flew the Butterfly’s Wife, very frightened, and clung to Balkis’s… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Up flew the Butterfly’s Wife, very frightened, and clung to Balkis’s white hand. Who acts: Up. 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 73

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Up flew the Butterfly’s Wife, very frightened, and clung to Balkis’s white hand.

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**Who acts:** Up · **What happens:** fly, cling · **To what, where:** Wife

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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 (Up), 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:pg2781:13:73
# text = Up flew the Butterfly’s Wife, very frightened, and clung to Balkis’s white hand.
1	Up	Up	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	Wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	frightened	frightened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	clung	cling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | Up | the Butterfly's Wife |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wife=Theme |
| 2 | **cling** | participle | Up *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Balkis's white hand | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to hand=Co-Theme |

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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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