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title: ‘Well,’ said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, ‘you will find that… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Well,’ said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, ‘you will find that new nose of yours very useful to spank people with.’ Who acts: you. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant’s Child, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 78

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‘Well,’ said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, ‘you will find that new nose of yours very useful to spank people with.’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** say, find, spank · **To what, where:** Bi Coloured Rock Snake, people · **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), 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:pg2781:6:78
# text = ‘Well,’ said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, ‘you will find that new nose of yours very useful to spank people with.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
7	Bi	bi	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Python	python	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	‘	‘	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	ccomp	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	spank	spank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
30	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	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 Bi Coloured Rock Snake |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent snake=Topic |
| 2 | **find** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **spank** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |

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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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