--- title: In the poem, Kipling places the story on Merrow Down near Guildford… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: In the poem, Kipling places the story on Merrow Down near Guildford in Surrey, England, where the river Wey, which Taffy called Wagai, runs. Who acts: Kipling, Taffy. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/) / 9 # Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down, sentence 9 In the poem, Kipling places the story on Merrow Down near Guildford in Surrey, England, where the river Wey, which Taffy called Wagai, runs. **Who acts:** Kipling, Taffy · **What happens:** place, call, run · **To what, where:** story, poem, river Wey · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down» 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 (Kipling, Taffy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.lesson:9 # text = In the poem, Kipling places the story on Merrow Down near Guildford in Surrey, England, where the river Wey, which Taffy called Wagai, runs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 poem poem NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 places place VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 Merrow Merrow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Down Down PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 near near ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Guildford Guildford PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Surrey Surrey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:unmarked _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 22 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 Wey Wey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 appos _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 obj _ _ 25 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 27 Wagai Wagai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 xcomp _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **place** | present | Kipling | the story | | the poem | | on Merrow Down near Guildford; in Surrey England | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme on down=Destination | | 2 | **call** | past | Taffy | the river Wey | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient | | 3 | **run** | present | Kipling *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.lesson:9`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/8/) - next →: [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/)