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title: But (and this is rather queer) A.T.L. — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: But (and this is rather queer) A.T.L. Who acts: this. 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 155

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But (and this is rather queer) A.T.L.

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**Who acts:** this · **What happens:** be

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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 (this), 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:pg2781:11:155
# text = But (and this is rather queer) A.T.L.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	queer	queer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	A.T.L	A.T.L	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | this |  |  |  |  | queer *property* | tree rules |

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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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