--- title: ‘Now come along and we’ll draw all the left-over sound-pictures,’ sa… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Now come along and we’ll draw all the left-over sound-pictures,’ said her Daddy, and they had a most inciting day of it, and a beautiful lunch in the middle, and two games of romps. Who acts: we, pictures. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Alphabet Was Made, with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/289/) [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/) / 289 # Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 289 ‘Now come along and we’ll draw all the left-over sound-pictures,’ said her Daddy, and they had a most inciting day of it, and a beautiful lunch in the middle, and two games of romps. **Who acts:** we, pictures · **What happens:** come along, draw, say, have, incite · **To what, where:** over sound pictures, Daddy, beautiful lunch · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (we, pictures), 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:pg2781:10:289 # text = ‘Now come along and we’ll draw all the left-over sound-pictures,’ said her Daddy, and they had a most inciting day of it, and a beautiful lunch in the middle, and two games of romps. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 4 along along ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 draw draw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 9 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 16 det:predet _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 11 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 over over ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 14 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 19 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 Daddy daddy NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 28 advmod _ _ 28 inciting incite VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 amod _ _ 29 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 43 nummod _ _ 43 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 romps romp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come along** | infinitive | | | | | now | along *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **draw** | future | we | all over sound pictures | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | water's Daddy | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | past | pictures *= picture* | a beautiful lunch in the middle | | | day | two games of romps *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **incite** | gerund | | | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition | 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 288](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/288/) - next →: [sentence 290](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/290/) - ↑ back to [How the Alphabet Was Made](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/)