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title: We’ll open a little hole at the end of the round egg to show how the… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: We’ll open a little hole at the end of the round egg to show how the O-noise runs out all thin, ooo-oo-oo. Who acts: We, O noise. 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 183

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We’ll open a little hole at the end of the round egg to show how the O-noise runs out all thin, ooo-oo-oo.

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**Who acts:** We, O noise · **What happens:** open, show, run out · **To what, where:** little hole, end, thin oo oo · **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 (We, O noise), 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:pg2781:10:183
# text = We’ll open a little hole at the end of the round egg to show how the O-noise runs out all thin, ooo-oo-oo.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	O	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
22	out	out	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	all	all	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	ooo	ooo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	oo	oo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	oo	oo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | future | We | a little hole |  |  | at the end of the round egg |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent hole=Theme at end=Location |
| 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **run out** | present | the O noise | thin oo oo |  |  |  | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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