--- title: Darzee, the Tailorbird, helped him, and Chuchundra, the muskrat, who… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: Darzee, the Tailorbird, helped him, and Chuchundra, the muskrat, who never comes out into the middle of the floor, but always creeps round by the wall, gave him advice, but Rikki-tikki did the real fighting. Who acts: Darzee, muskrat, Chuchundra, Rikki tikki. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darzee, muskrat, Chuchundra, Rikki tikki), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg236:13:49 # text = Darzee, the Tailorbird, helped him, and Chuchundra, the muskrat, who never comes out into the middle of the floor, but always creeps round by the wall, gave him advice, but Rikki-tikki did the real fighting. 1 Darzee Darzee PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Tailorbird Tailorbird PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 6 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 10 Chuchundra Chuchundra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 muskrat muskrat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 16 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 28 advmod _ _ 28 creeps creep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 29 round round ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 iobj _ _ 36 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 but but CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 Rikki Rikki PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 tikki tikki NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 fighting fighting NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | past | Darzee and the Tailorbird | | Tavi | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | | 2 | **not** **come out** | present | the muskrat | | | the middle of the floor | | | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **creep** | present | the muskrat *not said here* | | | | | by the wall; always, round *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wall=Trajectory | | 4 | **give** | past | Chuchundra | advice | Tavi | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient advice=Theme | | 5 | **do** | past | Rikki tikki | the real fighting | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fighting=Eventuality | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/13/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/13/50/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/13/)