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title: No one but a sea cow or a seal would have dreamed of there being suc… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: No one but a sea cow or a seal would have dreamed of there being such a place, and when he looked back at the cliffs even Kotick could hardly believe that he had been under them. Who acts: sea, Kotick. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 12, with its dependency 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 81

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No one but a sea cow or a seal would have dreamed of there being such a place, and when he looked back at the cliffs even Kotick could hardly believe that he had been under them.

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**Who acts:** sea, Kotick · **What happens:** dream, be, look back, believe · **To what, where:** one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (sea, Kotick), 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:pg236:12:81
# text = No one but a sea cow or a seal would have dreamed of there being such a place, and when he looked back at the cliffs even Kotick could hardly believe that he had been under them.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
12	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
15	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
16	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	18	det:predet	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	even	even	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
29	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
36	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	cop	_	_
37	under	under	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dream** | would · perfect · passive |  | no one but a sea cow or a seal |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  | there |  | of such place | tree rules |
| 3 | **look back** | past | sea |  |  |  |  | at the cliffs | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cliff=Theme |
| 4 | **believe** | could | Kotick |  |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | past · perfect | sea |  |  |  |  | under cliffs *= cliff* | 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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