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title: Then he took off his two leather boots and he took up his little sto… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he took off his two leather boots and he took up his little stone axe (that makes three) and he fetched a piece of wood and a hatchet (that is five altogether), and he set them out in a row and he said, ‘Now we will make our bargain. Who acts: Man, little stone axe, that, we. A sentence of «Jus
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# Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 144

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Then he took off his two leather boots and he took up his little stone axe (that makes three) and he fetched a piece of wood and a hatchet (that is five altogether), and he set them out in a row and he said, ‘Now we will make our bargain.

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**Who acts:** Man, little stone axe, that, we, our · **What happens:** take off, take up, make, fetch, be, set out · **To what, where:** two leather boots, little stone axe, three, piece, five, pieces · **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 (Man, little stone axe, that, we), 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:pg2781:12:144
# text = Then he took off his two leather boots and he took up his little stone axe (that makes three) and he fetched a piece of wood and a hatchet (that is five altogether), and he set them out in a row and he said, ‘Now we will make our bargain.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	fetched	fetch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	parataxis	_	_
36	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	out	out	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
51	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	55	advmod	_	_
53	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
54	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	ccomp	_	_
56	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take off** | past | Man | Man's two leather boots |  |  | then |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Theme |
| 2 | **take up** | past | Man | Man's little stone axe |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | present | Man's little stone axe | three |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset three=Product |
| 4 | **fetch** | past | Man | a piece of wood and a hatchet |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | that | five |  |  |  | altogether *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **set out** | past | Man | pieces *= piece* |  | a row |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **make** | future | we | our bargain |  |  | now |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Product |
| 9 | **bargain** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom bargain «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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