--- title: When you draw a hissy-snake by the door of your little back-cave whe… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: When you draw a hissy-snake by the door of your little back-cave where you mend the spears, I’ll know you’re thinking hard; and I’ll come in most mousy-quiet. Who acts: you, I, ’re. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Alphabet Was Made, with its dependency tree and the pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/101/) [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/) / [How the Alphabet Was Made](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/) / 101 # Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 101 When you draw a hissy-snake by the door of your little back-cave where you mend the spears, I’ll know you’re thinking hard; and I’ll come in most mousy-quiet. **Who acts:** you, I, ’re · **What happens:** draw, mend, know, think, come · **To what, where:** hissy snake, spears, you, most This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Alphabet Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, ’re), 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:pg2781:10:101 # text = When you draw a hissy-snake by the door of your little back-cave where you mend the spears, I’ll know you’re thinking hard; and I’ll come in most mousy-quiet. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 draw draw VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 hissy hissy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 12 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 14 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 17 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 19 advmod _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 mend mend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 spears spear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ’re 're NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 thinking think VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 29 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 34 obl _ _ 37 mousy mousy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **draw** | present | you | a hissy snake | | | | by the door of your little back cave | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme | | 2 | **mend** | present | you | the spears | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **know** | future | I | you | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | ’re *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **come** | future | I | | | most | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in most=Location | 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: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/102/) - ↑ back to [How the Alphabet Was Made](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/)