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title: Daddy’s just as good as come here himself and told me to get more wa… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Daddy’s just as good as come here himself and told me to get more water for Mummy to cook with.’ Who acts: more water. 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 287

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Daddy’s just as good as come here himself and told me to get more water for Mummy to cook with.’

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**Who acts:** more water · **What happens:** come, tell, get, cook · **To what, where:** Um, me, more water · **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 (more water), 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:pg2781:10:287
# text = Daddy’s just as good as come here himself and told me to get more water for Mummy to cook with.’
1	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	csubj	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Mummy	Mummy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive |  | Um |  | here |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | more water |  |  |  | for Mummy | tree rules |
| 4 | **cook** | to-infinitive | more water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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