--- title: The Butterfly’s Wife looked at Balkis, and saw the most beautiful Qu… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: The Butterfly’s Wife looked at Balkis, and saw the most beautiful Queen’s eyes shining like deep pools with starlight on them, and she picked up her courage with both wings and said, ‘O Queen, be lovely for ever. Who acts: Wife, eyes, Balkis, Queen. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/75/) [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/) / 75 # Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 75 The Butterfly’s Wife looked at Balkis, and saw the most beautiful Queen’s eyes shining like deep pools with starlight on them, and she picked up her courage with both wings and said, ‘O Queen, be lovely for ever. **Who acts:** Wife, eyes, Balkis, Queen · **What happens:** look, see, shine, pick up, say, be · **To what, where:** eyes, courage · **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 (Wife, eyes, Balkis, Queen), 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:pg2781:13:75 # text = The Butterfly’s Wife looked at Balkis, and saw the most beautiful Queen’s eyes shining like deep pools with starlight on them, and she picked up her courage with both wings and said, ‘O Queen, be lovely for ever. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ’s 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 Wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Balkis Balkis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 13 advmod _ _ 13 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ’s 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 17 shining shine VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 18 like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 pools pool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 starlight starlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 picked pick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 courage courage NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ _ 34 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 O o INTJ UH _ 40 discourse _ _ 40 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 cop _ _ 43 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 ccomp _ _ 44 for for ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | the Butterfly's Wife | | | | | at Balkis | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at balkis=Theme | | 2 | **see** | past | the Butterfly's Wife *not said here* | the beautiful Queen's eyes | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | | 3 | **shine** | gerund | the beautiful Queen's eyes *not said here* | | | | | like deep pools with starlight on wifes | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **pick up** | past | Balkis | Balkis's courage | | | | with both wings | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Topic | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Balkis *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | infinitive | Queen | | | | | lovely *property* | 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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/76/) - ↑ back to [The Butterfly That Stamped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/)