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title: There, in the warm litter above the melons, very cunningly hidden, h… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There, in the warm litter above the melons, very cunningly hidden, he found twenty-five eggs, about the size of a bantam’s eggs, but with whitish skin instead of shell. Who acts: tikki. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 155

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There, in the warm litter above the melons, very cunningly hidden, he found twenty-five eggs, about the size of a bantam’s eggs, but with whitish skin instead of shell.

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**Who acts:** tikki · **What happens:** find · **To what, where:** five eggs

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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 (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:pg236:14:155
# text = There, in the warm litter above the melons, very cunningly hidden, he found twenty-five eggs, about the size of a bantam’s eggs, but with whitish skin instead of shell.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	litter	litter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	above	above	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	melons	melon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	cunningly	cunningly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
17	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bantam	bantam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	whitish	whitish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	_
35	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	37	case	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	fixed	_	_
37	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | tikki | five eggs |  |  |  | instead whitish skin's shell | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Topic |

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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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