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title: Rikki-tikki’s eyes grew red again, and he danced up to Karait with t… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Rikki-tikki’s eyes grew red again, and he danced up to Karait with the peculiar rocking, swaying motion that he had inherited from his family. Who acts: tikki eyes, snakeling, peculiar. 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 5

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Rikki-tikki’s eyes grew red again, and he danced up to Karait with the peculiar rocking, swaying motion that he had inherited from his family.

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**Who acts:** tikki eyes, snakeling, peculiar · **What happens:** grow, dance up, rock, sway, inherit · **To what, where:** Karait, motion, family

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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 eyes, snakeling, peculiar), 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:pg236:14:5
# text = Rikki-tikki’s eyes grew red again, and he danced up to Karait with the peculiar rocking, swaying motion that he had inherited from his family.
1	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	tikki	tikki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Karait	Karait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	rocking	rock	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	swaying	sway	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	conj	_	_
22	motion	motion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	inherited	inherit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | tikki eyes |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dance up** | past | snakeling |  | Karait |  |  | with the peculiar | vn waltz-51.5 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rock** | gerund | the peculiar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sway** | gerund | the peculiar *not said here* | motion |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location motion=Theme |
| 5 | **inherit** | past · perfect | snakeling |  |  | snakeling's family |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from family=Source |

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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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