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title: Then they went inland to the holluschickie grounds and rolled up and… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they went inland to the holluschickie grounds and rolled up and down in the new wild wheat and told stories of what they had done while they had been at sea. Who acts: seals. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 33

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Then they went inland to the holluschickie grounds and rolled up and down in the new wild wheat and told stories of what they had done while they had been at sea.

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**Who acts:** seals · **What happens:** go, roll up, tell, do, be · **To what, where:** holluschickie grounds, new wild wheat, stories, sea · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seals), 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:pg236:11:33
# text = Then they went inland to the holluschickie grounds and rolled up and down in the new wild wheat and told stories of what they had done while they had been at sea.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	inland	inland	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	holluschickie	holluschickie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nmod	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
30	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	cop	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | seals *= seal* |  |  | the holluschickie grounds | then | inland *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to grounds=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **roll up** | participle | seals *= seal* *not said here* |  |  | the new wild wheat |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wheat=Trajectory |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | seals *= seal* *not said here* | stories |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 4 | **do** | past · perfect | seals *= seal* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past · perfect | seals *= seal* |  |  | sea |  |  | tree rules |

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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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