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title: Then the little girl-daughter put up her little soft brown arms with… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the little girl-daughter put up her little soft brown arms with the beautiful white shell bracelets and said, ‘O Eldest Magician! when my father here talked to you at the Very Beginning, and I leaned upon his shoulder while the beasts were being taught their plays, one beast went away naughtily
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# Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 55

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Then the little girl-daughter put up her little soft brown arms with the beautiful white shell bracelets and said, ‘O Eldest Magician! when my father here talked to you at the Very Beginning, and I leaned upon his shoulder while the beasts were being taught their plays, one beast went away naughtily into the Sea before you had taught him his play.

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**Who acts:** little girl daughter, father, I, one beast, beasts · **What happens:** put up, say, talk, learn, teach, go away · **To what, where:** little soft brown arms, you, Beginning, beasts, Sea, play · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (little girl daughter, father, I, one beast), 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:pg2781:11:55
# text = Then the little girl-daughter put up her little soft brown arms with the beautiful white shell bracelets and said, ‘O Eldest Magician! when my father here talked to you at the Very Beginning, and I leaned upon his shoulder while the beasts were being taught their plays, one beast went away naughtily into the Sea before you had taught him his play.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	bracelets	bracelet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	26	discourse	_	_
25	Eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	Magician	Magician	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
28	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	32	mark	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
32	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	Beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	leaned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
43	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux:pass	_	_
50	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	advcl	_	_
52	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	plays	play	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	56	nummod	_	_
56	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	_
57	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	conj	_	_
58	away	away	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
59	naughtily	naughtily	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
60	into	into	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
63	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	66	mark	_	_
64	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	66	nsubj:pass	_	_
65	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	66	aux	_	_
66	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	57	advcl	_	_
67	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	66	obj	_	_
68	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	69	nmod:poss	_	_
69	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put up** | participle | the little girl daughter | daughter's little soft brown arms |  |  | then | with the beautiful white shell bracelets | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the little girl daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **talk** | past | my father |  | you |  | at the Beginning |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **learn** | past | I |  |  |  |  | upon father's shoulder | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | the beasts |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient play=Topic |
| 6 | **go away** | past | one beast |  |  | the Sea |  | away, naughtily *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into sea=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | you | play |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **play** |  | beasts *= beast* |  |  |  |  |  | nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **play** |  | father |  |  |  |  |  | nom play «communication 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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