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title: Kotick followed, and the pace astonished him, for he never dreamed t… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Kotick followed, and the pace astonished him, for he never dreamed that Sea Cow was anything of a swimmer. Who acts: Kotick, pace. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 66

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Kotick followed, and the pace astonished him, for he never dreamed that Sea Cow was anything of a swimmer.

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**Who acts:** Kotick, pace · **What happens:** follow, astonish, not dream, be · **To what, where:** Kotick, anything

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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 (Kotick, pace), 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:pg236:12:66
# text = Kotick followed, and the pace astonished him, for he never dreamed that Sea Cow was anything of a swimmer.
1	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	astonished	astonish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Cow	Cow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	swimmer	swimmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | Kotick |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **astonish** | past | the pace | Kotick |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **dream** | past | Kotick |  |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | anything |  |  |  | of a swimmer | tree rules |

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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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