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title: Then he was battered to and fro as a rat is shaken by a dog--to and… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he was battered to and fro as a rat is shaken by a dog--to and fro on the floor, up and down, and around in great circles, but his eyes were red and he held on as the body cart-whipped over the floor, upsetting the tin dipper and the soap dish and the flesh brush, and banged against the tin sid
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 90

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Then he was battered to and fro as a rat is shaken by a dog--to and fro on the floor, up and down, and around in great circles, but his eyes were red and he held on as the body cart-whipped over the floor, upsetting the tin dipper and the soap dish and the flesh brush, and banged against the tin side of the bath.

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**Who acts:** dog, eyes, tikki · **What happens:** batter, fro, shake, be, hold on, whip · **To what, where:** tikki, rat, floor, body, tin dipper, tin side

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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 (dog, eyes, 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:pg236:14:90
# text = Then he was battered to and fro as a rat is shaken by a dog--to and fro on the floor, up and down, and around in great circles, but his eyes were red and he held on as the body cart-whipped over the floor, upsetting the tin dipper and the soap dish and the flesh brush, and banged against the tin side of the bath.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	battered	batter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fro	fro	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	shaken	shake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	fro	fro	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	up	up	ADV	RB	_	19	advcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	down	down	ADV	RB	_	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	around	around	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	circles	circle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
43	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
46	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	whipped	whip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	advcl	_	_
49	over	over	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	upsetting	upset	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	48	advcl	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	dipper	dipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	_
60	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	conj	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
63	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	compound	_	_
64	brush	brush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
66	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
67	banged	bang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	53	advcl	_	_
68	against	against	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
69	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	71	det	_	_
70	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	71	compound	_	_
71	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	obl	_	_
72	of	of	ADP	IN	_	74	case	_	_
73	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	74	det	_	_
74	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	71	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **batter** | past · passive |  | tikki |  |  | then | around *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Instrument |
| 2 | **fro** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **shake** | present · passive | a dog | a rat |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 4 | **fro** | infinitive |  |  |  | the floor |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | tikki's eyes |  |  |  |  | red *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **hold on** | past | tikki |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **whip** | participle · passive |  | the body |  | the floor |  |  | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient over floor=Location |
| 8 | **upset** | gerund |  | the tin dipper and the soap dish and the flesh brush |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus dipper=Experiencer |
| 9 | **bang** | participle |  |  |  | the tin side of the bath |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against side=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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