--- title: “This is a splendid hunting-ground,” he said, and his tail grew bott… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: “This is a splendid hunting-ground,” he said, and his tail grew bottle-brushy at the thought of it, and he scuttled up and down the garden, snuffing here and there till he heard very sorrowful voices in a thorn-bush. Who acts: This, Tikki, tail. 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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 (This, Tikki, tail), 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:pg236:13:97 # text = “This is a splendid hunting-ground,” he said, and his tail grew bottle-brushy at the thought of it, and he scuttled up and down the garden, snuffing here and there till he heard very sorrowful voices in a thorn-bush. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 splendid splendid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 6 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ” " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 18 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 brushy brushy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 thought thought NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 scuttled scuttle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 30 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 down down ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 snuffing snuff VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 37 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 conj _ _ 40 till till SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 43 very very ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 sorrowful sorrowful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ _ 46 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 48 thorn thorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 49 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 bush bush NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | a splendid hunting ground | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tikki | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **grow** | past | Tikki's tail | | | the thought of thought | | brushy *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at thought=Location | | 4 | **scuttle up** | past | Tikki | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **snuff** | gerund | Tikki *not said here* | | | here | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **hear** | past | Tikki | sorrowful voices | | a thorn bush | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | | 7 | **think** | | | thought | | | | | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/13/96/) - next →: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/13/98/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/13/)