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title: It was not a Singing Magic, Best Beloved, it was a Still Magic; and… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: It was not a Singing Magic, Best Beloved, it was a Still Magic; and by and by the Cave grew so still that a little wee-wee mouse crept out of a corner and ran across the floor. Who acts: fire, Cave, little wee mouse. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himself,
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# Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 126

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It was not a Singing Magic, Best Beloved, it was a Still Magic; and by and by the Cave grew so still that a little wee-wee mouse crept out of a corner and ran across the floor.

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**Who acts:** fire, Cave, little wee mouse · **What happens:** sing, not be, be, grow, creep out, run · **To what, where:** Singing Magic, Still Magic, corner, floor

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This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himself. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, Cave, little wee mouse), 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:pg2781:12:126
# text = It was not a Singing Magic, Best Beloved, it was a Still Magic; and by and by the Cave grew so still that a little wee-wee mouse crept out of a corner and ran across the floor.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	compound	_	_
6	Magic	Magic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Best	Good	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	flat	_	_
9	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Still	Still	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Magic	Magic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
29	wee	wee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
40	across	across	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past | fire | a Singing Magic and a Still Magic |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | fire | a Still Magic |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **grow** | past | the Cave | a Singing Magic and a Still Magic *not said here* |  |  | still |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location magic=Theme |
| 5 | **creep out** | past | a little wee mouse | a corner |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location corner=Theme |
| 6 | **run** | past | a little wee mouse *not said here* |  |  | the floor |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across floor=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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