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title: The holluschickie just bundled off a few yards and sat staring stupi… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The holluschickie just bundled off a few yards and sat staring stupidly. Who acts: holluschickie. 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 42

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The holluschickie just bundled off a few yards and sat staring stupidly.

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**Who acts:** holluschickie · **What happens:** bundle off, sit, stare · **To what, where:** few yards

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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 (holluschickie), 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:pg236:11:42
# text = The holluschickie just bundled off a few yards and sat staring stupidly.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	holluschickie	holluschickie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	bundled	bundle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
12	stupidly	stupidly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bundle off** | past | the holluschickie | a few yards |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yard=Patient |
| 2 | **sit** | past | the holluschickie *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stare** | gerund | the holluschickie *not said here* |  |  |  |  | stupidly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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