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title: It gave him confidence in himself, and when Teddy came running down… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It gave him confidence in himself, and when Teddy came running down the path, Rikki-tikki was ready to be petted. Who acts: victory, Teddy, Rikki tikki. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 143

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It gave him confidence in himself, and when Teddy came running down the path, Rikki-tikki was ready to be petted.

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**Who acts:** victory, Teddy, Rikki tikki · **What happens:** give, come, run down, be, pet · **To what, where:** confidence, Tikki, path

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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 (victory, Teddy, 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:pg236:13:143
# text = It gave him confidence in himself, and when Teddy came running down the path, Rikki-tikki was ready to be petted.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	Teddy	Teddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
12	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
17	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	tikki	tikki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	petted	pet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | victory | confidence | Tikki |  |  | in Tikki | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient confidence=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | Teddy |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **run down** | gerund | Teddy *not said here* | the path |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme path=Trajectory |
| 4 | **is** | past | Rikki tikki |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **pet** | to-infinitive · passive | Rikki tikki *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V» |

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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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