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title: This cheered him immensely; and when he came back to Novastoshnah th… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This cheered him immensely; and when he came back to Novastoshnah that summer, Matkah, his mother, begged him to marry and settle down, for he was no longer a holluschick but a full-grown sea-catch, with a curly white mane on his shoulders, as heavy, as big, and as fierce as his father. Who acts: Th
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 27

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This cheered him immensely; and when he came back to Novastoshnah that summer, Matkah, his mother, begged him to marry and settle down, for he was no longer a holluschick but a full-grown sea-catch, with a curly white mane on his shoulders, as heavy, as big, and as fierce as his father.

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**Who acts:** This, Kotick, that · **What happens:** cheer, come back, summer, beg, marry, settle down · **To what, where:** Kotick, Novastoshnah

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Kotick, that), 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:pg236:12:27
# text = This cheered him immensely; and when he came back to Novastoshnah that summer, Matkah, his mother, begged him to marry and settle down, for he was no longer a holluschick but a full-grown sea-catch, with a curly white mane on his shoulders, as heavy, as big, and as fierce as his father.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cheered	cheer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	immensely	immensely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Novastoshnah	Novastoshnah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Matkah	Matkah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
27	down	down	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
32	no	no	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	35	advmod	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	holluschick	holluschick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
38	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	amod	_	_
41	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	catch	catch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
47	curly	curly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
48	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	mane	mane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
50	on	on	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	as	as	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	as	as	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
61	as	as	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
62	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
63	as	as	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	65	nmod:poss	_	_
65	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cheer** | past | This | Kotick |  |  |  | immensely *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 2 | **come back** | past | Kotick |  |  | Novastoshnah |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to novastoshnah=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **summer** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | This *not said here* |  | Kotick |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 5 | **marry** | to-infinitive | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **settle down** | infinitive | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **is** | past | Kotick |  |  |  |  | for a holluschick but a grown sea catch and a curly white mane on Kotick's shoulders; long *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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