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title: But as the faithful years return And hearts unwounded sing again, Co… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: But as the faithful years return And hearts unwounded sing again, Comes Taffy dancing through the fern To lead the Surrey spring again. Who acts: faithful years, Comes. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Alphabet Was Made, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 300

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But as the faithful years return And hearts unwounded sing again, Comes Taffy dancing through the fern To lead the Surrey spring again.

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**Who acts:** faithful years, Comes · **What happens:** return, dance, lead · **To what, where:** unwounded sing, fern

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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 (faithful years, Comes), 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:pg2781:10:300
# text = But as the faithful years return And hearts unwounded sing again, Comes Taffy dancing through the fern To lead the Surrey spring again.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	return	return	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
7	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	unwounded	unwounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	Comes	Comes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fern	fern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	To	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Surrey	Surrey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | present | the faithful years | unwounded sing |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dance** | gerund | Comes |  |  | the fern |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through fern=Location |
| 3 | **lead** | to-infinitive | Comes *not said here* |  |  |  | again; spring |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |

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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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