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title: «Just so»: Kipling wrote that the bedtime stories for his little dau… — Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Just so»: Kipling wrote that the bedtime stories for his little daughter had to be told exactly the same way each time, «just so», with not one word changed; she was the first Best Beloved. Who acts: Kipling, bedtime stories. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, pa
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# Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 36

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«Just so»: Kipling wrote that the bedtime stories for his little daughter had to be told exactly the same way each time, «just so», with not one word changed; she was the first Best Beloved.

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**Who acts:** Kipling, bedtime stories · **What happens:** write, have, tell, change, be · **To what, where:** same way, one word, first Best Beloved · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends» 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, bedtime stories), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:097-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends.lesson:36
# text = «Just so»: Kipling wrote that the bedtime stories for his little daughter had to be told exactly the same way each time, «just so», with not one word changed; she was the first Best Beloved.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 097-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
2	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
6	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	xcomp	_	_
20	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obl
24	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
28	just	just	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
36	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	43	amod	_	_
42	Best	Best	PROPN	NNP	_	43	flat	_	_
43	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **write** | past | Kipling |  |  |  |  | with one word | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | past | the bedtime stories for story's little daughter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive · passive | the bedtime stories for story's little daughter *not said here* | the same way |  |  | time |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **change** | participle |  | one word *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | Kipling | the first Best Beloved |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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:097-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends.lesson:36`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-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/).

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