--- title: Curiously enough, there was another seal who thought that she would… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: Curiously enough, there was another seal who thought that she would put off marrying till the next year, and Kotick danced the Fire-dance with her all down Lukannon Beach the night before he set off on his last exploration. Who acts: seal, wave, Kotick. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seal, wave, Kotick), 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:pg236:12:30 # text = Curiously enough, there was another seal who thought that she would put off marrying till the next year, and Kotick danced the Fire-dance with her all down Lukannon Beach the night before he set off on his last exploration. 1 Curiously curiously ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 enough enough ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 5 expl _ _ 5 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 7 det _ _ 7 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 14 off off ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 marrying marrying NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 till till ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 Kotick Kotick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 danced dance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 Fire Fire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 30 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 31 down down ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 Lukannon Lukannon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 Beach Beach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 36 before before SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 39 off off ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 exploration exploration NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | another seal | | | there | | curiously *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | another seal | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **put off** | would | wave | marrying | | | year | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent marrying=Goal | | 4 | **dance** | past | Kotick | the Fire dance | | | night | with wave | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dance=Theme | | 5 | **set off** | past | Kotick | | | Kotick's last exploration | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **explore** | | Kotick | | | | | | nom exploration «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/31/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/)