--- title: Now and then he would see a thin fin, like a big shark’s fin, drifti… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: Now and then he would see a thin fin, like a big shark’s fin, drifting along close to shore, and he knew that that was the Killer Whale, the Grampus, who eats young seals when he can get them; and Kotick would head for the beach like an arrow, and the fin would jig off slowly, as if it were looking --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/11/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jungle Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/) / [The Jungle Book, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/11/) / 4 # The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 4 Now and then he would see a thin fin, like a big shark’s fin, drifting along close to shore, and he knew that that was the Killer Whale, the Grampus, who eats young seals when he can get them; and Kotick would head for the beach like an arrow, and the fin would jig off slowly, as if it were looking for nothing at all. **Who acts:** King, that, Grampus, fin · **What happens:** see, drift along, know, be, eat, get · **To what, where:** thin fin, Killer Whale, young seals, seals, arrow · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (King, that, Grampus, fin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg236:11:4 # text = Now and then he would see a thin fin, like a big shark’s fin, drifting along close to shore, and he knew that that was the Killer Whale, the Grampus, who eats young seals when he can get them; and Kotick would head for the beach like an arrow, and the fin would jig off slowly, as if it were looking for nothing at all. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 3 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 fin fin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ’s 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 fin fin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 drifting drift VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 19 along along ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 28 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 Killer Killer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 Whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Grampus Grampus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 38 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 39 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 seals seal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 41 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 44 advmod _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ _ 45 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ; ; PUNCT : _ 50 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 48 Kotick Kotick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 49 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 50 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 51 for for ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ _ 54 like like ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 arrow arrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 58 and and CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 fin fin NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 nsubj _ _ 61 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 62 aux _ _ 62 jig jig VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 56 acl:relcl _ _ 63 off off ADP RP _ 62 compound:prt _ _ 64 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 62 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 65 , , PUNCT , _ 70 punct _ _ 66 as as SCONJ IN _ 70 mark _ _ 67 if if SCONJ IN _ 70 mark _ _ 68 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 70 nsubj _ _ 69 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 70 aux _ _ 70 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 62 advcl _ _ 71 for for ADP IN _ 72 case _ _ 72 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 70 obl _ _ 73 at at ADP IN _ 74 case _ _ 74 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 72 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 75 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | would | King | a thin fin | | | now; then | Kotick head for the beach like a arrow *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fin=Stimulus | | 2 | **drift along** | gerund | King *not said here* | | | | | close *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **know** | past | King | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** | past | that | the Killer Whale | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **eat** | present | the Grampus | young seals | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Patient | | 6 | **get** | can | King | seals *= seal* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 7 | **jig off** | would | the fin | a arrow *not said here* | | | | slowly *property* | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme arrow=Destination | | 8 | **look** | past · progressive | fin | | | | | for nothing | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for nothing=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/11/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/11/5/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/11/)