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title: Limmershin, the Winter Wren, told me the tale when he was blown on t… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Limmershin, the Winter Wren, told me the tale when he was blown on to the rigging of a steamer going to Japan, and I took him down into my cabin and warmed and fed him for a couple of days till he was fit to fly back to St. Paul’s again. Who acts: Limmershin, steamer, I. A sentence of «The Jungle Bo
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 105

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Limmershin, the Winter Wren, told me the tale when he was blown on to the rigging of a steamer going to Japan, and I took him down into my cabin and warmed and fed him for a couple of days till he was fit to fly back to St. Paul’s again.

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**Who acts:** Limmershin, steamer, I · **What happens:** tell, blow, go, take down, warm, feed · **To what, where:** tale, me, Limmershin, rigging, Japan, cabin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Limmershin, steamer, I), 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:pg236:10:105
# text = Limmershin, the Winter Wren, told me the tale when he was blown on to the rigging of a steamer going to Japan, and I took him down into my cabin and warmed and fed him for a couple of days till he was fit to fly back to St. Paul’s again.
1	Limmershin	Limmershin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Winter	Winter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Wren	Wren	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	rigging	rigging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	steamer	steamer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	down	down	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	cabin	cabin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	warmed	warm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
44	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
47	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	advcl	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
50	back	back	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nmod:desc	_	_
53	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	’s	's	PART	POS	_	53	case	_	_
55	again	again	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Limmershin | the tale | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient tale=Topic |
| 2 | **blow** | past · passive |  | Limmershin |  | the rigging of a steamer |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | a steamer *not said here* |  |  | Japan |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to japan=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **take down** | past | I | Limmershin |  | my cabin |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **warm** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **feed** | past | I *not said here* |  | Limmershin |  |  | for a couple of days | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 7 | **is** | past | Limmershin |  |  |  |  | fit *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **fly** | to-infinitive | Limmershin *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: 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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