--- title: When they came to T, Taffy said that as her name, and her Daddy’s, a… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: When they came to T, Taffy said that as her name, and her Daddy’s, and her Mummy’s all began with that sound, they should draw a sort of family group of themselves holding hands. Who acts: pictures, Taffy, all, Daddy. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Alphabet Was Made, wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/290/) [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/) / 290 # Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 290 When they came to T, Taffy said that as her name, and her Daddy’s, and her Mummy’s all began with that sound, they should draw a sort of family group of themselves holding hands. **Who acts:** pictures, Taffy, all, Daddy, family group · **What happens:** come, say, begin, draw, hold, name · **To what, where:** T, sort, hands, family group · **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 (pictures, Taffy, all, Daddy), 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:pg2781:10:290 # text = When they came to T, Taffy said that as her name, and her Daddy’s, and her Mummy’s all began with that sound, they should draw a sort of family group of themselves holding hands. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 T T PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 Daddy daddy NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ’s 's PART POS _ 16 case _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 Mummy Mummy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ’s 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 24 nsubj _ _ 24 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 det _ _ 27 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 draw draw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 sort sort NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 36 nmod _ _ 39 holding hold VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 acl _ _ 40 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | pictures *= picture* | | | T | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to t=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Taffy | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **begin** | past | all | | | | | with that sound | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with sound=Subeventuality | | 4 | **draw** | should | Taffy's Daddy | a sort of family group of pictures | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Theme | | 5 | **hold** | gerund | family group of pictures *not said here* | hands | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 6 | **name** | | Taffy | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **sort** | | | family group of pictures | | | | | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 289](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/289/) - next →: [sentence 291](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/291/) - ↑ back to [How the Alphabet Was Made](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/)