--- title: Her Mummy wanted her to stay at home and help hang up hides to dry o… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: Her Mummy wanted her to stay at home and help hang up hides to dry on the big drying-poles outside their Neolithic Cave, but Taffy slipped away down to her Daddy quite early, and they fished. Who acts: Mummy, Taffy, poles. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Alphabet Was Made --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/2/) [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/) / 2 # Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 2 Her Mummy wanted her to stay at home and help hang up hides to dry on the big drying-poles outside their Neolithic Cave, but Taffy slipped away down to her Daddy quite early, and they fished. **Who acts:** Mummy, Taffy, poles · **What happens:** want, stay, help, hang up, hide, dry · **To what, where:** Taffy, home, big drying poles 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 (Mummy, Taffy, poles), 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:pg2781:10:2 # text = Her Mummy wanted her to stay at home and help hang up hides to dry on the big drying-poles outside their Neolithic Cave, but Taffy slipped away down to her Daddy quite early, and they fished. 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 Mummy Mummy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 hang hang VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 nsubj _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 dry dry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 19 drying drying NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 poles pole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 22 outside outside ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 Neolithic neolithic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 Cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 slipped slip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 30 away away ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 down down ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 Daddy daddy NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 35 quite quite ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 fished fish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | past | Taffy's Mummy | Taffy | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **stay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Taffy *not said here* | | | home | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | | 3 | **help** | present | Taffy *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hang up** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hide** | present | | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **dry** | to-infinitive | | | | the big drying poles outside poles's Neolithic Cave | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **slip away** | past | Taffy | | | | | to Taffy's Daddy; away, down, early *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 8 | **fish** | past | poles *= pole* | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/3/) - ↑ back to [How the Alphabet Was Made](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/)