--- title: And his little girl-daughter’s name was Taffimai Metallumai, and tha… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: And his little girl-daughter’s name was Taffimai Metallumai, and that means, ‘Small-person-without-any-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked’; but I’m going to call her Taffy. Who acts: name, that, I, little girl daughter. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, that, I, little girl daughter), 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:pg2781:9:6 # text = And his little girl-daughter’s name was Taffimai Metallumai, and that means, ‘Small-person-without-any-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked’; but I’m going to call her Taffy. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 4 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’s 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 Taffimai Taffimai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 11 Metallumai Metallumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 nsubj _ _ 15 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 without without ADP IN _ 26 case _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 26 det _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 manners manners NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 36 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ought ought AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 spanked spank VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’m be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 42 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 xcomp _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ _ 45 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | man's little girl daughter's name | Taffimai | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | that | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **spank** | ought · passive | that *not said here* | any manners | | | | | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **be** | present | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **go** | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **call** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | person | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme taffy=Result | | 7 | **name** | | man's little girl daughter | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/7/) - ↑ back to [How the First Letter Was Written](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/)