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title: As soon as Taffy could run about she went everywhere with her Daddy… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as Taffy could run about she went everywhere with her Daddy Tegumai, and sometimes they would not come home to the Cave till they were hungry, and then Teshumai Tewindrow would say, ‘Where in the world have you two been to, to get so shocking dirty? Who acts: Taffy, manners, Teshumai. A sent
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# Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 8

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As soon as Taffy could run about she went everywhere with her Daddy Tegumai, and sometimes they would not come home to the Cave till they were hungry, and then Teshumai Tewindrow would say, ‘Where in the world have you two been to, to get so shocking dirty?

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**Who acts:** Taffy, manners, Teshumai · **What happens:** run, go, not come, be, say, have · **To what, where:** Cave, you, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Taffy, manners, Teshumai), 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:pg2781:9:8
# text = As soon as Taffy could run about she went everywhere with her Daddy Tegumai, and sometimes they would not come home to the Cave till they were hungry, and then Teshumai Tewindrow would say, ‘Where in the world have you two been to, to get so shocking dirty?
1	As	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	6	cc	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	fixed	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
4	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
22	home	home	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
33	Teshumai	Teshumai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	Tewindrow	Tewindrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	43	advmod	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
43	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	parataxis	_	_
44	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	obj	_	_
46	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	43	xcomp	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
51	so	so	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
52	shocking	shocking	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | could | Taffy |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | Taffy |  |  |  |  | with Taffy's Daddy Tegumai; everywhere *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with tegumai=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **not** **come** | would | manners |  |  | the Cave |  | home, sometimes *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | manners |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | Teshumai |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **have** | present |  | you |  | the world |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **get** | to-infinitive | Teshumai *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dirty *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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