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title: And she was Tegumai Bopsulai’s Best Beloved and her own Mummy’s Best… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: And she was Tegumai Bopsulai’s Best Beloved and her own Mummy’s Best Beloved, and she was not spanked half as much as was good for her; and they were all three very happy. Who acts: person, manners. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the First Letter Was Written, with its depend
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# Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 7

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And she was Tegumai Bopsulai’s Best Beloved and her own Mummy’s Best Beloved, and she was not spanked half as much as was good for her; and they were all three very happy.

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**Who acts:** person, manners · **What happens:** be, not spank · **To what, where:** person

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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 (person, manners), 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:pg2781:9:7
# text = And she was Tegumai Bopsulai’s Best Beloved and her own Mummy’s Best Beloved, and she was not spanked half as much as was good for her; and they were all three very happy.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	_
5	Bopsulai	Bopsulai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
7	Best	Good	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	8	flat	_	_
8	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Mummy	Mummy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	Best	Good	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	15	flat	_	_
15	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	spanked	spank	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
22	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	24	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obj	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	advcl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
34	all	all	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nsubj	_	_
36	very	very	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | person |  |  |  |  | 's Tegumai | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **spank** | past · passive |  | person |  |  |  |  | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient much=Result |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for person; good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | manners |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |

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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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