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title: Now you must know and understand, O Best Beloved, that till that ver… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Now you must know and understand, O Best Beloved, that till that very week, and day, and hour, and minute, this ‘satiable Elephant’s Child had never seen a Crocodile, and did not know what one was like. Who acts: you, this, one. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant’s Chil
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# Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 22

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Now you must know and understand, O Best Beloved, that till that very week, and day, and hour, and minute, this ‘satiable Elephant’s Child had never seen a Crocodile, and did not know what one was like.

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**Who acts:** you, this, one · **What happens:** know, understand, not see, not know, be · **To what, where:** Crocodile · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant’s Child. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, this, one), 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:pg2781:6:22
# text = Now you must know and understand, O Best Beloved, that till that very week, and day, and hour, and minute, this ‘satiable Elephant’s Child had never seen a Crocodile, and did not know what one was like.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	10	vocative	_	_
9	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
13	till	till	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
27	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	nsubj	_	_
28	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	satiable	satiable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’s	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	Child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
43	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	46	obj	_	_
44	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	nsubj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
46	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | must | you |  |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **understand** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | this | a Crocodile |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crocodile=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | this *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | past | one |  |  |  |  | like *property* | tree rules |

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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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