--- title: The Stranger-man (and he was a Tewara) didn’t say anything, So Taffy… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: The Stranger-man (and he was a Tewara) didn’t say anything, So Taffy put up her little hand and pulled at the beautiful bead and seed and shark-tooth necklace round his neck. Who acts: man, Stranger man, Taffy. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the First Letter Was Written, wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/54/) [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/) / 54 # Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 54 The Stranger-man (and he was a Tewara) didn’t say anything, So Taffy put up her little hand and pulled at the beautiful bead and seed and shark-tooth necklace round his neck. **Who acts:** man, Stranger man, Taffy · **What happens:** be, not say, put up, pull · **To what, where:** Tewara, anything, little hand · **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 (man, Stranger man, Taffy), 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:pg2781:9:54 # text = The Stranger-man (and he was a Tewara) didn’t say anything, So Taffy put up her little hand and pulled at the beautiful bead and seed and shark-tooth necklace round his neck. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Tewara Tewara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 12 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 13 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 15 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 So so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 bead bead NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 necklace necklace NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 37 round round ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | man | a Tewara | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the Stranger man | anything | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | | 3 | **put up** | past | Taffy | Taffy's little hand | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | | 4 | **pull** | participle | Taffy *not said here* | | | | | at the beautiful bead and seed and shark tooth necklace round man's neck | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at bead=Theme | 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 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/55/) - ↑ back to [How the First Letter Was Written](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/)