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title: Let’s go up to the pig-sties and sit on the farmyard rails! — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Let’s go up to the pig-sties and sit on the farmyard rails! Who acts: you, ’s. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Leopard Got His Spots, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 128

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Let’s go up to the pig-sties and sit on the farmyard rails!

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**Who acts:** you, ’s · **What happens:** let, go up, sit · **To what, where:** ’s, farmyard rails

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This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Leopard Got His Spots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ’s), 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:pg2781:5:128
# text = Let’s go up to the pig-sties and sit on the farmyard rails!
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’s	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	sties	sty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	farmyard	farmyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	rails	rail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | ’s |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go up** | infinitive | ’s *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the pig sties | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **sit** | present | you *not said here* |  |  | the farmyard rails |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rail=Location |

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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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