--- title: So her Mummy most carefully didn’t; and bright and early next mornin… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: So her Mummy most carefully didn’t; and bright and early next morning Tegumai went down to the river to think about new sound pictures, and when Taffy got up she saw Ya-las (water is ending or running out) chalked on the side of the big stone water-tank, outside the Cave. 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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 (Mummy, Taffy, water), 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:pg2781:10:284 # text = So her Mummy most carefully didn’t; and bright and early next morning Tegumai went down to the river to think about new sound pictures, and when Taffy got up she saw Ya-las (water is ending or running out) chalked on the side of the big stone water-tank, outside the Cave. 1 So so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 Mummy Mummy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 5 advmod _ _ 5 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 15 Tegumai Tegumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 16 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 17 down down ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 23 about about ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 30 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 32 up up ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 35 Ya Ya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 las la NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 38 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 ending end VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 acl _ _ 42 or or CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 41 conj _ _ 44 out out ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 41 punct _ _ 46 chalked chalk VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 acl _ _ 47 on on ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 50 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 52 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 53 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 compound _ _ 54 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 55 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 54 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 tank tank NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 58 outside outside ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 Cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 61 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **do** | past | Mummy's Mummy | | | | | carefully *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **go down** | past | Mummy's Mummy *not said here* | | | | morning | to the river; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Mummy's Mummy *not said here* | | | | | about new sound pictures | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about picture=Topic | | 4 | **get up** | past | Taffy | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **see** | past | Mummy | Ya las | | | | outside the Cave | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer la=Stimulus | | 6 | **end** | present · progressive | water | Ya las *not said here* | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality la=Eventuality | | 7 | **run out** | gerund | water *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **chalk** | participle | | Ya las *not said here* | | the side of the big stone water tank | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on side=Destination | 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 283](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/283/) - next →: [sentence 285](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/285/) - ↑ back to [How the Alphabet Was Made](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/)