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title: The purr grew louder, and ended in the full-throated “Aaarh!” of the… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The purr grew louder, and ended in the full-throated “Aaarh!” of the tiger’s charge. Who acts: purr, tiger. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 69

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The purr grew louder, and ended in the full-throated “Aaarh!” of the tiger’s charge.

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**Who acts:** purr, tiger · **What happens:** grow, end, throat, charge · **To what, where:** throated Aaarh

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (purr, tiger), 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:pg236:1:69
# text = The purr grew louder, and ended in the full-throated “Aaarh!” of the tiger’s charge.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	purr	purr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
10	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	throated	throat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Aaarh	Aaarh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the purr |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **end** | past | the purr *not said here* |  |  | the throated Aaarh of the tiger's charge |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **throat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **charge** |  | the tiger |  |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 236 (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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