--- title: ‘Look,’ said Taffy, drawing very hard and rather scratchily, ‘now I’… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Look,’ said Taffy, drawing very hard and rather scratchily, ‘now I’ve drawn you, and I’ve put the spear that Daddy wants into your hand, just to remind you that you’re to bring it. Who acts: Taffy, I, Daddy, you. 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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 (Taffy, I, Daddy, you), 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:pg2781:9:72 # text = ‘Look,’ said Taffy, drawing very hard and rather scratchily, ‘now I’ve drawn you, and I’ve put the spear that Daddy wants into your hand, just to remind you that you’re to bring it. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 drawing draw VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 9 very very ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 rather rather ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 scratchily scratchily ADV RB _ 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ’ve have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ’ve have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 25 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 Daddy Daddy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 just just ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 remind remind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 iobj _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’re be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 ccomp _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Taffy | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **draw** | gerund | Taffy *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **draw** | present · perfect | I | you | | | now | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 5 | **have** | present | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **put** | infinitive | I *not said here* | the spear | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent spear=Goal | | 7 | **want** | present | Daddy | | | your hand | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 8 | **remind** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | you | | | | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 9 | **does** | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **bring** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | hand | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/73/) - ↑ back to [How the First Letter Was Written](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/)