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title: Where billow meets billow, then soft be thy pillow, Ah, weary wee fl… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Where billow meets billow, then soft be thy pillow, Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease! Who acts: billow, you. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 101

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Where billow meets billow, then soft be thy pillow, Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease!

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**Who acts:** billow, you · **What happens:** meet, be, curl · **To what, where:** billow, soft pillow, ease

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (billow, you), 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:pg236:10:101
# text = Where billow meets billow, then soft be thy pillow, Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease!
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	3	advmod	_	_
2	billow	billow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	meets	meet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
4	billow	billow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
7	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
9	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	flipperling	flipperling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	curl	curl	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | present | billow | billow and thy soft pillow |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent billow=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive | billow *not said here* | thy soft pillow |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **curl** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | thy ease |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |

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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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