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title: Look! there is that girl who saw me running away at the Very Beginni… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Look! there is that girl who saw me running away at the Very Beginning. Who acts: you, girl, me. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Crab That Played With the Sea, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 103

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Look! there is that girl who saw me running away at the Very Beginning.

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**Who acts:** you, girl, me · **What happens:** look, be, see, run away · **To what, where:** me, Beginning

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This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Crab That Played With the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, girl, me), 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:pg2781:11:103
# text = Look! there is that girl who saw me running away at the Very Beginning.
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	Beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **be** | present | that girl |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | that girl | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **run away** | gerund | me *not said here* |  |  |  | at the Beginning | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at beginning=Trajectory |

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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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