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title: It is nearly always foggy at Novastoshnah, except when the sun comes… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It is nearly always foggy at Novastoshnah, except when the sun comes out and makes everything look all pearly and rainbow-colored for a little while. Who acts: fog, sun, everything. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 147

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It is nearly always foggy at Novastoshnah, except when the sun comes out and makes everything look all pearly and rainbow-colored for a little while.

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**Who acts:** fog, sun, everything · **What happens:** be, come out, make, look, color · **To what, where:** Novastoshnah, everything, all

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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 (fog, sun, everything), 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:pg236:10:147
# text = It is nearly always foggy at Novastoshnah, except when the sun comes out and makes everything look all pearly and rainbow-colored for a little while.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	foggy	foggy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Novastoshnah	Novastoshnah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	except	except	ADP	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	16	obj	_	_
18	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	obj	_	_
20	pearly	pearly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | fog |  |  | Novastoshnah |  | always, foggy, nearly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come out** | present | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | present | the sun *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | infinitive | everything *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme all=Attribute |
| 5 | **color** | participle |  |  |  |  | while | pearly *property* | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=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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