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title: ‘And still it would be just the same as if you stood there and said,… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘And still it would be just the same as if you stood there and said, “G’way, Taffy, or you’ll get fever.” Who acts: noise, you. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Alphabet Was Made, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 123

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‘And still it would be just the same as if you stood there and said, “G’way, Taffy, or you’ll get fever.”

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**Who acts:** noise, you · **What happens:** be, stand, say, get · **To what, where:** G’way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (noise, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2781:10:123
# text = ‘And still it would be just the same as if you stood there and said, “G’way, Taffy, or you’ll get fever.”
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	G’way	G'way	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
27	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | noise |  |  |  | still | same *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | past | you |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | future | you | G’way |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fever=Stimulus |

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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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**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.

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