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title: No indeed!’ said the Woman, and she dropped the blade-bone and jumpe… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: No indeed!’ said the Woman, and she dropped the blade-bone and jumped upon the footstool in front of the fire and braided up her hair very quick for fear that the mouse should run up it. Who acts: Woman, mouse. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himself, with 
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# Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 130

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No indeed!’ said the Woman, and she dropped the blade-bone and jumped upon the footstool in front of the fire and braided up her hair very quick for fear that the mouse should run up it.

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**Who acts:** Woman, mouse · **What happens:** say, drop, jump, braid up, run up · **To what, where:** blade bone, front, hair · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Woman, 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:pg2781:12:130
# text = No indeed!’ said the Woman, and she dropped the blade-bone and jumped upon the footstool in front of the fire and braided up her hair very quick for fear that the mouse should run up it.
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	ccomp	_	_
2	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	footstool	footstool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	braided	braid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	very	very	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	parataxis	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
40	up	up	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Woman |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drop** | past | Woman | the blade bone |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme |
| 3 | **jump** | past | Woman *not said here* |  |  | front of the fire |  | upon the footstool | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon footstool=Trajectory |
| 4 | **braid up** | past | Woman *not said here* | Woman's hair |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 5 | **run up** | should | the mouse | hair |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=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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