--- title: So they went home, and all that evening Tegumai sat on one side of t… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: So they went home, and all that evening Tegumai sat on one side of the fire and Taffy on the other, drawing ya’s and yo’s and shu’s and shi’s in the smoke on the wall and giggling together till her Mummy said, ‘Really, Tegumai, you’re worse than my Taffy.’ Who acts: las, Tegumai, Mummy, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (las, Tegumai, Mummy, you), 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:pg2781:10:281 # text = So they went home, and all that evening Tegumai sat on one side of the fire and Taffy on the other, drawing ya’s and yo’s and shu’s and shi’s in the smoke on the wall and giggling together till her Mummy said, ‘Really, Tegumai, you’re worse than my Taffy.’ 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 home home ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 7 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 9 det:predet _ _ 8 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 9 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 Tegumai Tegumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 drawing draw VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 25 ya ya NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ’s ' NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 yo yo NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ’s ' NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 shu shu NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ’s ' NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 shi shi NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ’s ' NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 39 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 giggling giggle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 conj _ _ 44 together together ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 45 till till SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 46 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 Mummy Mummy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 48 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 50 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 Really really ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 53 Tegumai Tegumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 55 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 ’re be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 conj _ _ 57 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 56 xcomp _ _ 58 than than ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 59 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 60 nmod:poss _ _ 60 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 61 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 62 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | las *= la* | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sit** | past | Tegumai | | | one side of the fire and Taffy | evening | on the other | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location | | 3 | **draw** | gerund | Tegumai *not said here* | ya ’s and yo ’s and shu ’s and shi ’s | | the smoke | | on the wall | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent '=Theme in smoke=Destination | | 4 | **giggle** | gerund | Tegumai *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tegumai's Mummy | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **does** | present | you | | | | | bad *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 280](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/280/) - next →: [sentence 282](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/282/) - ↑ back to [How the Alphabet Was Made](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/)