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title: Early in the morning Rikki-tikki came to early breakfast in the vera… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Early in the morning Rikki-tikki came to early breakfast in the veranda riding on Teddy’s shoulder, and they gave him banana and some boiled egg. Who acts: Rikki tikki, shoulders. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 92

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Early in the morning Rikki-tikki came to early breakfast in the veranda riding on Teddy’s shoulder, and they gave him banana and some boiled egg.

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**Who acts:** Rikki tikki, shoulders · **What happens:** come, give, boil · **To what, where:** early breakfast, banana, Tikki

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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, shoulders), 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:pg236:13:92
# text = Early in the morning Rikki-tikki came to early breakfast in the veranda riding on Teddy’s shoulder, and they gave him banana and some boiled egg.
1	Early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	tikki	tikki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	veranda	veranda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	Teddy	Teddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
28	boiled	boil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Rikki tikki |  |  | early breakfast in the veranda riding on Teddy's shoulder | morning | early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to breakfast=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **give** | past | shoulders *= shoulder* | banana and some boiled egg | Tikki |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient banana=Theme |
| 3 | **boil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «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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