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title: ‘O Bananas!’ said they, ‘where did you learn that trick, and what ha… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘O Bananas!’ said they, ‘where did you learn that trick, and what have you done to your nose?’ Who acts: bananas, 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 92

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‘O Bananas!’ said they, ‘where did you learn that trick, and what have you done to your nose?’

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**Who acts:** bananas, you · **What happens:** say, learn, do · **To what, where:** trick · **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 (bananas, 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:pg2781:6:92
# text = ‘O Bananas!’ said they, ‘where did you learn that trick, and what have you done to your nose?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	3	case	_	_
3	Bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	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 | bananas *= banana* |  |  |  |  | of Bananas | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **learn** | past · do-support | you | that trick |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | to your nose | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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