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title: Then Kerick sat down on the moss and pulled out a heavy pewter watch… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Kerick sat down on the moss and pulled out a heavy pewter watch and let the drove cool off for thirty minutes, and Kotick could hear the fog-dew dripping off the brim of his cap. Who acts: Kerick, Kotick, fog dew. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11, wit
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 78

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Then Kerick sat down on the moss and pulled out a heavy pewter watch and let the drove cool off for thirty minutes, and Kotick could hear the fog-dew dripping off the brim of his cap.

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**Who acts:** Kerick, Kotick, fog dew · **What happens:** sit down, pull out, let, drive, cool off, hear · **To what, where:** moss, heavy pewter watch, fog dew, brim

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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 (Kerick, Kotick, fog dew), 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:pg236:11:78
# text = Then Kerick sat down on the moss and pulled out a heavy pewter watch and let the drove cool off for thirty minutes, and Kotick could hear the fog-dew dripping off the brim of his cap.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Kerick	Kerick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	pewter	pewter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
19	cool	cool	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	off	off	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
33	dripping	drip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
34	off	off	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	brim	brim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | Kerick |  |  | the moss | then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on moss=Location |
| 2 | **pull out** | participle | Kerick *not said here* | a heavy pewter watch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | Kerick *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **drive** | past | Kerick *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cool off** | infinitive | Kerick *not said here* |  |  |  | minute |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **hear** | could | Kotick | the fog dew |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer dew=Stimulus |
| 7 | **drip** | gerund | the fog dew *not said here* |  |  | the brim of Kotick's cap |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off brim=Location |

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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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