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title: Teddy carried him off to bed, and insisted on Rikki-tikki sleeping u… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Teddy carried him off to bed, and insisted on Rikki-tikki sleeping under his chin. Who acts: Teddy, Rikki tikki. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 25

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Teddy carried him off to bed, and insisted on Rikki-tikki sleeping under his chin.

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**Who acts:** Teddy, Rikki tikki · **What happens:** carry off, insist, sleep · **To what, where:** Rikki, bed, Rikki tikki, chin

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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 (Teddy, Rikki 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:pg236:14:25
# text = Teddy carried him off to bed, and insisted on Rikki-tikki sleeping under his chin.
1	Teddy	Teddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	insisted	insist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	tikki	tikki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	acl	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry off** | past | Teddy | Rikki |  | bed |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to bed=Destination |
| 2 | **insist** *speech: other* | participle | Teddy *not said here* |  |  | Rikki tikki |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sleep** | gerund | Rikki tikki *not said here* |  |  | Rikki's chin |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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