--- title: She went to the spring at the back of the house and filled the tank… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: She went to the spring at the back of the house and filled the tank from a bark bucket, and then she ran down to the river and pulled her Daddy’s left ear--the one that belonged to her to pull when she was good. Who acts: water, one. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Alphab --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/288/) [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/) / 288 # Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 288 She went to the spring at the back of the house and filled the tank from a bark bucket, and then she ran down to the river and pulled her Daddy’s left ear--the one that belonged to her to pull when she was good. **Who acts:** water, one · **What happens:** go, fill, run down, pull, belong, be · **To what, where:** back, tank, bark bucket, left ear, water 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 (water, one), 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:pg2781:10:288 # text = She went to the spring at the back of the house and filled the tank from a bark bucket, and then she ran down to the river and pulled her Daddy’s left ear--the one that belonged to her to pull when she was good. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 filled fill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 tank tank NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 bucket bucket NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 25 down down ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 Daddy Daddy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ’s 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 -- -- PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 39 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 belonged belong VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 advcl _ _ 45 when when SCONJ WRB _ 48 mark _ _ 46 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 47 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 48 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | water | | | the back of the house | spring | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at back=Location | | 2 | **fill** | past | water *not said here* | the tank | | a bark bucket | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tank=Patient | | 3 | **run down** | past | water | | | | then | to the river *result*; down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to river=Result | | 4 | **pull** | past | water *not said here* | water's Daddy's left ear | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | | 5 | **belong** | past | the one | | water | | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **pull** | to-infinitive | the one *not said here* | | | | | | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is** | past | water | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | 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 287](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/287/) - next →: [sentence 289](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/289/) - ↑ back to [How the Alphabet Was Made](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/)