--- title: ‘I shall be glad of that,’ said Taffy, ‘because, after all, though y… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I shall be glad of that,’ said Taffy, ‘because, after all, though you’ve brought every single other spear in the Tribe of Tegumai, you’ve forgotten my Daddy’s black-handled spear.’ Who acts: I, Taffy, you. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the First Letter Was Written, with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/173/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Just so stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/) / [How the First Letter Was Written](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/) / 173 # Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 173 ‘I shall be glad of that,’ said Taffy, ‘because, after all, though you’ve brought every single other spear in the Tribe of Tegumai, you’ve forgotten my Daddy’s black-handled spear.’ **Who acts:** I, Taffy, you · **What happens:** be, say, bring, have, forget, handle · **To what, where:** you, forgotten handled spear · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the First Letter Was Written. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Taffy, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2781:9:173 # text = ‘I shall be glad of that,’ said Taffy, ‘because, after all, though you’ve brought every single other spear in the Tribe of Tegumai, you’ve forgotten my Daddy’s black-handled spear.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 5 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 ccomp _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 after after ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 though though SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ’ve have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 23 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 24 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Tribe Tribe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Tegumai Tegumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’ve have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 35 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 amod _ _ 36 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 Daddy Daddy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ’s 's PART POS _ 37 case _ _ 39 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 handled handle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 amod _ _ 42 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | shall | I | | | | | of that; glad *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Taffy | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **bring** | present · passive | | you | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination spear=Theme | | 4 | **have** | present | you | my Daddy's forgotten handled spear | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Patient | | 5 | **forget** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **handle** | participle | | | | | | | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 172](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/172/) - next →: [sentence 174](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/174/) - ↑ back to [How the First Letter Was Written](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/)