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title: Then inch by inch out of the grass rose up the head and spread hood… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then inch by inch out of the grass rose up the head and spread hood of Nag, the big black cobra, and he was five feet long from tongue to tail. Who acts: you, Nag. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 107

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Then inch by inch out of the grass rose up the head and spread hood of Nag, the big black cobra, and he was five feet long from tongue to tail.

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**Who acts:** you, Nag · **What happens:** inch, rise up, spread, be · **To what, where:** head, hood, tongue

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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 (you, Nag), 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:pg236:13:107
# text = Then inch by inch out of the grass rose up the head and spread hood of Nag, the big black cobra, and he was five feet long from tongue to tail.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	inch	inch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	inch	inch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	hood	hood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Nag	Nag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	cobra	cobra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inch** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then | by inch | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by inch=Trajectory |
| 2 | **rise up** | past | you *not said here* | the head |  |  |  | of the grass | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of grass=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **spread** | past | you *not said here* | hood of Nag and the big black cobra |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hood=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | Nag |  |  | tongue |  | to tail; five feet *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | 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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