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title: The bushes rustled a little in the thicket, and Father Wolf dropped… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The bushes rustled a little in the thicket, and Father Wolf dropped with his haunches under him, ready for his leap. Who acts: bushes, Father Wolf, Tabaqui. 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 78

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The bushes rustled a little in the thicket, and Father Wolf dropped with his haunches under him, ready for his leap.

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**Who acts:** bushes, Father Wolf, Tabaqui · **What happens:** rustle, drop, leap · **To what, where:** little, thicket

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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 (bushes, Father Wolf, Tabaqui), 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:pg236:1:78
# text = The bushes rustled a little in the thicket, and Father Wolf dropped with his haunches under him, ready for his leap.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rustled	rustle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	haunches	haunch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rustle** | past | the bushes | a little |  | the thicket |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in thicket=Location |
| 2 | **drop** | past | Father Wolf |  |  |  |  | with Tabaqui's haunches; under Tabaqui | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme under he=Trajectory |
| 3 | **leap** |  | Tabaqui |  |  |  |  |  | nom leap «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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