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title: They had made a beautiful nest by pulling two big leaves together an… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They had made a beautiful nest by pulling two big leaves together and stitching them up the edges with fibers, and had filled the hollow with cotton and downy fluff. Who acts: Darzee. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 99

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They had made a beautiful nest by pulling two big leaves together and stitching them up the edges with fibers, and had filled the hollow with cotton and downy fluff.

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**Who acts:** Darzee · **What happens:** make, pull, stitch up, fill · **To what, where:** beautiful nest, two big leaves, Darzee, hollow

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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 (Darzee), 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:pg236:13:99
# text = They had made a beautiful nest by pulling two big leaves together and stitching them up the edges with fibers, and had filled the hollow with cotton and downy fluff.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	stitching	stitch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	fibers	fiber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	downy	downy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	fluff	fluff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · perfect | Darzee | a beautiful nest |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product |
| 2 | **pull** | gerund | Darzee *not said here* | two big leaves |  |  |  | together *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme |
| 3 | **stitch up** | gerund | Darzee *not said here* | Darzee |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent they=Patient edge=Result |
| 4 | **fill** | past · perfect | Darzee *not said here* | the hollow |  |  |  | with cotton and downy fluff | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with cotton=Instrument |

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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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