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title: Let’s draw another bit of the carp-fish and join ‘em,’ said her Daddy. — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Let’s draw another bit of the carp-fish and join ‘em,’ said her Daddy. Who acts: you, ’s. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Alphabet Was Made, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 60

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Let’s draw another bit of the carp-fish and join ‘em,’ said her Daddy.

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**Who acts:** you, ’s · **What happens:** let, draw, join, say · **To what, where:** ’s, bit, em, Daddy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, ’s), 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:pg2781:10:60
# text = Let’s draw another bit of the carp-fish and join ‘em,’ said her Daddy.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’s	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	carp	carp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	join	join	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | ’s |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **draw** | infinitive | ’s *not said here* | another bit of the carp fish |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme |
| 3 | **join** | present | ’s *not said here* | em *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | Ya's Daddy |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent daddy=Topic |

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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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