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title: The Just So Stories (1902) are Rudyard Kipling's made-up stories of… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Wh… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Just So Stories (1902) are Rudyard Kipling's made-up stories of how animals got their shapes; he first told them to his own children, who wanted them told "just so", word for word. Who acts: Just Stories, animals, Whale, own children. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 
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# Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat, sentence 6

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The Just So Stories (1902) are Rudyard Kipling's made-up stories of how animals got their shapes; he first told them to his own children, who wanted them told "just so", word for word.

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**Who acts:** Just Stories, animals, Whale, own children · **What happens:** make up, be, get, tell, want · **To what, where:** made stories, shapes, word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Just Stories, animals, Whale, own children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:074-justso-whale-throat.lesson:6
# text = The Just So Stories (1902) are Rudyard Kipling's made-up stories of how animals got their shapes; he first told them to his own children, who wanted them told "just so", word for word.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 074-justso-whale-throat.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R4-particle ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Just	Just	PROPN	NNP	_	4	compound	_	_
3	So	so	PROPN	NNP	_	2	flat	_	_
4	Stories	story	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
6	1902	1902	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	_
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
9	Rudyard	Rudyard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=12:compound
15	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	advmod	_	_
25	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	xcomp	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	_
37	just	just	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Just Stories | Rudyard Kipling's made stories |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | past | animals | Stories's shapes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shape=Stimulus |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Whale |  | shapes *= shape* |  |  | to Whale's own children; first *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to child=Recipient |
| 5 | **want** | past | Whale's own children |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | participle | animals *= animal* | word for word |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R4-particle ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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