--- title: THE week after Taffimai Metallumai (we will still call her Taffy, Be… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: THE week after Taffimai Metallumai (we will still call her Taffy, Best Beloved) made that little mistake about her Daddy’s spear and the Stranger-man and the picture-letter and all, she went carp-fishing again with her Daddy. Who acts: we, week, Taffy. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, week, Taffy), 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:pg2781:10:1 # text = THE week after Taffimai Metallumai (we will still call her Taffy, Best Beloved) made that little mistake about her Daddy’s spear and the Stranger-man and the picture-letter and all, she went carp-fishing again with her Daddy. 1 THE the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 3 after after ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 Taffimai Taffimai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Metallumai Metallumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 still still ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 Best Good ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 15 flat _ _ 15 Beloved Beloved PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 17 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 det _ _ 19 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 about about ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 Daddy Daddy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ’s 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 Stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 41 carp carp NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 fishing fishing NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 44 again again ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 45 with with ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 Daddy daddy NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | future | we | | Metallumai's Taffy | | still | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent taffy=Recipient | | 2 | **make** | past | the week after Taffimai Metallumai | that little mistake | | | | about Beloved's Daddy's spear and the Stranger man and the picture letter | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product | | 3 | **go** | past | Taffy | carp fishing | | | again | with Taffy's Daddy | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fishing=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. **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: [How the First Letter Was Wri…, 184](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/184/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/2/) - ↑ back to [How the Alphabet Was Made](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/)