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title: That night at dinner, walking to and fro among the wine-glasses on t… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: That night at dinner, walking to and fro among the wine-glasses on the table, he might have stuffed himself three times over with nice things. Who acts: you, Rikki. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 23

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That night at dinner, walking to and fro among the wine-glasses on the table, he might have stuffed himself three times over with nice things.

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**Who acts:** you, Rikki · **What happens:** walk, fro, stuff · **To what, where:** Rikki

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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 (you, Rikki), 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:pg236:14:23
# text = That night at dinner, walking to and fro among the wine-glasses on the table, he might have stuffed himself three times over with nice things.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	fro	fro	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	among	among	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
22	stuffed	stuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
23	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	over	over	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fro** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | night | among the wine glasses on the table | tree rules |
| 3 | **stuff** | might · perfect | Rikki | Rikki |  |  |  | with nice things; over *property* | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination with thing=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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