--- title: If it pleases my husband to believe that I believe he can make Sulei… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: If it pleases my husband to believe that I believe he can make Suleiman-bin-Daoud’s Palace disappear by stamping his foot, I’m sure I don’t care. Who acts: I, husband, Palace. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly That Stamped, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/80/) [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/) / 80 # Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 80 If it pleases my husband to believe that I believe he can make Suleiman-bin-Daoud’s Palace disappear by stamping his foot, I’m sure I don’t care. **Who acts:** I, husband, Palace · **What happens:** please, believe, make, disappear, stamp, be · **To what, where:** half, Palace, foot · **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 (I, husband, Palace), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2781:1056`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2781:13:80 # text = If it pleases my husband to believe that I believe he can make Suleiman-bin-Daoud’s Palace disappear by stamping his foot, I’m sure I don’t care. 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 expl _ _ 3 pleases please VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 csubj _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 14 Suleiman Suleiman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 16 bin bin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Daoud Daoud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ _ 19 ’s 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 20 Palace Palace PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 21 disappear disappear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 22 by by SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 stamping stamp VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 ’m be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 care care VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 ccomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **please** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I *not said here* | half | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus husband=Experiencer | | 2 | **believe** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **believe** | present | I | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **make** | can | husband | Suleiman's Palace | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **disappear** | infinitive | Suleiman's Palace *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **stamp** | gerund | husband *not said here* | husband's foot | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Destination | | 7 | **is** | present | I | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **not** **care** | present · do-support | I | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/81/) - ↑ back to [The Butterfly That Stamped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/)