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title: So long as the bungalow is empty, we are king and queen of the garde… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So long as the bungalow is empty, we are king and queen of the garden; and remember that as soon as our eggs in the melon bed hatch (as they may tomorrow), our children will need room and quiet.” Who acts: bungalow, we, children. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, p
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 62

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So long as the bungalow is empty, we are king and queen of the garden; and remember that as soon as our eggs in the melon bed hatch (as they may tomorrow), our children will need room and quiet.”

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**Who acts:** bungalow, we, children · **What happens:** be, remember, need · **To what, where:** king, room

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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 (bungalow, we, children), 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:pg236:14:62
# text = So long as the bungalow is empty, we are king and queen of the garden; and remember that as soon as our eggs in the melon bed hatch (as they may tomorrow), our children will need room and quiet.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bungalow	bungalow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	melon	melon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	hatch	hatch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
35	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
40	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
42	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	quiet	quiet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the bungalow |  |  |  |  | empty, long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | we | king and queen of the garden |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **remember** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **need** | future | our children | room and quiet |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot room=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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