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title: Then beavers built in Broadstone brook And made a swamp where Bramle… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then beavers built in Broadstone brook And made a swamp where Bramley stands: And bears from Shere would come and look For Taffimai where Shamley stands. Who acts: beavers, Bramley, bears, Shamley. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the First Letter Was Written, with its depende
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# Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 183

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Then beavers built in Broadstone brook And made a swamp where Bramley stands: And bears from Shere would come and look For Taffimai where Shamley stands.

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**Who acts:** beavers, Bramley, bears, Shamley · **What happens:** build, make, stand, come, look · **To what, where:** swamp

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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 (beavers, Bramley, bears, Shamley), 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:pg2781:9:183
# text = Then beavers built in Broadstone brook And made a swamp where Bramley stands: And bears from Shere would come and look For Taffimai where Shamley stands.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	beavers	beaver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Broadstone	Broadstone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	brook	brook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	swamp	swamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
12	Bramley	Bramley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Shere	Shere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	For	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Taffimai	Taffimai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
26	Shamley	Shamley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | beavers |  |  |  | then | in Broadstone | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in broadstone=Attribute |
| 2 | **make** | past | beavers *not said here* | a swamp |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset swamp=Product |
| 3 | **stand** | present | Bramley |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | would | bears from Shere |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **look** | infinitive | bears from Shere *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Taffimai | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for taffimai=Theme |
| 6 | **stand** | present | Shamley |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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