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title: ‘Besides, you might fall into the beaver-swamp and be drowned. — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Besides, you might fall into the beaver-swamp and be drowned. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the First Letter Was Written, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 19

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‘Besides, you might fall into the beaver-swamp and be drowned.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** fall, drown · **To what, where:** beaver 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 (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:pg2781:9:19
# text = ‘Besides, you might fall into the beaver-swamp and be drowned.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	swamp	swamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | might | you |  |  |  |  | into the beaver swamp *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into swamp=Result |
| 2 | **drown** | infinitive · passive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |

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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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