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title: All that in a carp-fish-tail and a round egg! — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: All that in a carp-fish-tail and a round egg! 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 124

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All that in a carp-fish-tail and a round egg!

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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: 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:pg2781:10:124
# text = All that in a carp-fish-tail and a round egg!
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	2	det:predet	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	carp	carp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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