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title: Darzee and his wife only cowered down in the nest without answering,… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Darzee and his wife only cowered down in the nest without answering, for from the thick grass at the foot of the bush there came a low hiss--a horrid cold sound that made Rikki-tikki jump back two clear feet. Who acts: Darzee, horrid cold sound, Rikki tikki. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyar
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 106

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Darzee and his wife only cowered down in the nest without answering, for from the thick grass at the foot of the bush there came a low hiss--a horrid cold sound that made Rikki-tikki jump back two clear feet.

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**Who acts:** Darzee, horrid cold sound, Rikki tikki · **What happens:** cower down, answer, come, make, jump back · **To what, where:** nest, low hiss, two clear feet

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darzee, horrid cold sound, Rikki tikki), 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:pg236:13:106
# text = Darzee and his wife only cowered down in the nest without answering, for from the thick grass at the foot of the bush there came a low hiss--a horrid cold sound that made Rikki-tikki jump back two clear feet.
1	Darzee	Darzee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	cowered	cower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	parataxis	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	answering	answer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
26	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	hiss	hiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	horrid	horrid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	tikki	tikki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	ccomp	_	_
41	back	back	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
43	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cower down** | participle | Darzee |  |  | the nest |  |  | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for the thick grass at the foot of the bush | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past |  | a low hiss |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hiss=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | past | a horrid cold sound |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **jump back** | infinitive | Rikki tikki | two clear feet |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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