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title: He looked at the thickness of the neck below the hood, but that was… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He looked at the thickness of the neck below the hood, but that was too much for him; and a bite near the tail would only make Nag savage. Who acts: tikki, that, bite, Nag. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 84

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He looked at the thickness of the neck below the hood, but that was too much for him; and a bite near the tail would only make Nag savage.

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**Who acts:** tikki, that, bite, Nag · **What happens:** look, be, make, savage · **To what, where:** Nag

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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, that, bite, 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:pg236:14:84
# text = He looked at the thickness of the neck below the hood, but that was too much for him; and a bite near the tail would only make Nag savage.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	thickness	thickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	below	below	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hood	hood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
24	near	near	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
30	Nag	Nag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	savage	savage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | tikki |  |  |  |  | at the thickness of the neck below the hood | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at thickness=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | for tikki; much *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | would | a bite near the tail | Nag |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **savage** | infinitive | Nag *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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