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title: In mocassins and deer-skin cloak, Unfearing, free and fair she flits… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: In mocassins and deer-skin cloak, Unfearing, free and fair she flits, And lights her little damp-wood smoke To show her Daddy where she flits. Who acts: Unfearing. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Alphabet Was Made, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 302

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In mocassins and deer-skin cloak, Unfearing, free and fair she flits, And lights her little damp-wood smoke To show her Daddy where she flits.

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**Who acts:** Unfearing · **What happens:** flit, light, show, smoke · **To what, where:** little damp wood smoke, Daddy

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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 (Unfearing), 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:pg2781:10:302
# text = In mocassins and deer-skin cloak, Unfearing, free and fair she flits, And lights her little damp-wood smoke To show her Daddy where she flits.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	mocassins	mocassin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Unfearing	Unfearing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	appos	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	flits	flit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	lights	light	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
21	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
25	To	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	flits	flit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flit** | present | Unfearing |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **light** | present | Unfearing *not said here* | Unfearing's little damp wood smoke |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smoke=Product |
| 3 | **show** | to-infinitive | Unfearing *not said here* | Unfearing's Daddy |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daddy=Recipient |
| 4 | **flit** | present | Unfearing |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **smoke** |  | Unfearing |  |  |  |  |  | nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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