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title: At the bottom of the smooth plaster wall there was a brick pulled ou… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At the bottom of the smooth plaster wall there was a brick pulled out to make a sluice for the bath water, and as Rikki-tikki stole in by the masonry curb where the bath is put, he heard Nag and Nagaina whispering together outside in the moonlight. Who acts: brick, Rikki tikki, tikki, Nag. A sentenc
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 55

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At the bottom of the smooth plaster wall there was a brick pulled out to make a sluice for the bath water, and as Rikki-tikki stole in by the masonry curb where the bath is put, he heard Nag and Nagaina whispering together outside in the moonlight.

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**Who acts:** brick, Rikki tikki, tikki, Nag · **What happens:** be, pull out, make, steal in, put, hear · **To what, where:** bottom, brick, sluice, bath, Nag, moonlight

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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 (brick, Rikki tikki, tikki, Nag), 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:pg236:14:55
# text = At the bottom of the smooth plaster wall there was a brick pulled out to make a sluice for the bath water, and as Rikki-tikki stole in by the masonry curb where the bath is put, he heard Nag and Nagaina whispering together outside in the moonlight.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	plaster	plaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sluice	sluice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
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	29	nsubj	_	_
29	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	masonry	masonry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	curb	curb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	39	advmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
43	Nag	Nag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
46	whispering	whisper	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	42	xcomp	_	_
47	together	together	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
48	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a brick |  |  | the bottom of the smooth plaster wall; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bottom=Location |
| 2 | **pull out** | participle |  | a brick *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a sluice |  |  |  | for the bath water | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent sluice=Product for water=Asset |
| 4 | **steal in** | past | Rikki tikki |  |  |  |  | by the masonry curb | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by curb=Location |
| 5 | **put** | present · passive |  | the bath |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 6 | **hear** | past | tikki | Nag and Nagaina |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | gerund | Nag and Nagaina *not said here* |  |  | the moonlight |  | outside, together *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moonlight=Location |

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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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