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title: The three- and four-year-old holluschickie romped down from Hutchins… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The three- and four-year-old holluschickie romped down from Hutchinson’s Hill crying: “Out of the way, youngsters! A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 35

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The three- and four-year-old holluschickie romped down from Hutchinson’s Hill crying: “Out of the way, youngsters!

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**What happens:** romp down, cry · **To what, where:** old holluschickie, Hill

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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: 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:pg236:11:35
# text = The three- and four-year-old holluschickie romped down from Hutchinson’s Hill crying: “Out of the way, youngsters!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	holluschickie	holluschickie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	romped	romp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	Hutchinson	Hutchinson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
17	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Out	out	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	youngsters	youngster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **romp down** | participle |  | the old holluschickie and way youngsters *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  | Hutchinson's Hill |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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