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title: His father ran out with a stick, but by the time he came up, Karait… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His father ran out with a stick, but by the time he came up, Karait had lunged out once too far, and Rikki-tikki had sprung, jumped on the snake’s back, dropped his head far between his forelegs, bitten as high up the back as he could get hold, and rolled away. Who acts: father, Karait, tikki. A sen
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 15

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His father ran out with a stick, but by the time he came up, Karait had lunged out once too far, and Rikki-tikki had sprung, jumped on the snake’s back, dropped his head far between his forelegs, bitten as high up the back as he could get hold, and rolled away.

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**Who acts:** father, Karait, tikki · **What happens:** run out, come up, lunge out, spring, jump, drop · **To what, where:** time, Rikki tikki, back, head, forelegs, hold

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, Karait, tikki), 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:pg236:14:15
# text = His father ran out with a stick, but by the time he came up, Karait had lunged out once too far, and Rikki-tikki had sprung, jumped on the snake’s back, dropped his head far between his forelegs, bitten as high up the back as he could get hold, and rolled away.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	up	up	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
17	Karait	Karait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	lunged	lunge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	19	advmod	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	tikki	tikki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	sprung	spring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’s	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	39	advmod	_	_
43	between	between	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	forelegs	foreleg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	bitten	bite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	acl	_	_
48	as	as	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	obl	_	_
50	up	up	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
53	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
55	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	advcl	_	_
57	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
61	away	away	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run out** | past | Teddy's father |  |  |  |  | with a stick | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with stick=Material |
| 2 | **come up** | past | father | the time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme |
| 3 | **lunge out** | past · perfect | Karait |  |  |  | time | far, once *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **spring** | past · perfect · passive |  | Rikki tikki |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **jump** | past | Teddy's father *not said here* |  |  | the snake's back |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory |
| 6 | **drop** | past | Teddy's father *not said here* | tikki's head |  | tikki's forelegs |  | far *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme between foreleg=Destination |
| 7 | **bite** | participle |  | tikki's forelegs *not said here* |  |  |  | as high; up the back | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **get** | could | tikki | hold |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus |
| 9 | **roll away** | past | Teddy's father *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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