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title: Rikki-tikki liked it immensely, and when it was finished he went out… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Rikki-tikki liked it immensely, and when it was finished he went out into the veranda and sat in the sunshine and fluffed up his fur to make it dry to the roots. Who acts: Rikki tikki, Tikki, piece. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13, with its dependency tre
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 77

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Rikki-tikki liked it immensely, and when it was finished he went out into the veranda and sat in the sunshine and fluffed up his fur to make it dry to the roots.

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**Who acts:** Rikki tikki, Tikki, piece · **What happens:** like, finish, go out, sit, fluff up, make · **To what, where:** piece, veranda, fur, sunshine

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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 (Rikki tikki, Tikki, piece), 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:pg236:13:77
# text = Rikki-tikki liked it immensely, and when it was finished he went out into the veranda and sat in the sunshine and fluffed up his fur to make it dry to the roots.
1	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	tikki	tikki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	immensely	immensely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	out	out	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	veranda	veranda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	fluffed	fluff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | past | Rikki tikki | piece |  |  |  | immensely *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 2 | **finish** | past · passive |  | piece |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **go out** | past | Tikki |  |  | the veranda |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sit** | past | Tikki *not said here* | Tikki's fur |  | the sunshine |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent fur=Theme in sunshine=Location |
| 5 | **fluff up** | participle | Tikki *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | Tikki *not said here* | piece |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **dry** | infinitive | piece *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the roots | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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