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title: Then Teddy’s mother came in with a very white face, and saw what was… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Teddy’s mother came in with a very white face, and saw what was left of Nag, and Rikki-tikki dragged himself to Teddy’s bedroom and spent half the rest of the night shaking himself tenderly to find out whether he really was broken into forty pieces, as he fancied. Who acts: mother, Rikki tikki,
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 98

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Then Teddy’s mother came in with a very white face, and saw what was left of Nag, and Rikki-tikki dragged himself to Teddy’s bedroom and spent half the rest of the night shaking himself tenderly to find out whether he really was broken into forty pieces, as he fancied.

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**Who acts:** mother, Rikki tikki, tikki · **What happens:** come in, see, leave, drag, spend, shake · **To what, where:** tikki, bedroom, rest, forty pieces · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (mother, Rikki tikki, 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:pg236:14:98
# text = Then Teddy’s mother came in with a very white face, and saw what was left of Nag, and Rikki-tikki dragged himself to Teddy’s bedroom and spent half the rest of the night shaking himself tenderly to find out whether he really was broken into forty pieces, as he fancied.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Teddy	Teddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Nag	Nag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	tikki	tikki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	Teddy	Teddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’s	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
33	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	35	det:predet	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
40	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	39	obj	_	_
41	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	xcomp	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
44	out	out	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
47	really	really	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	advcl	_	_
50	into	into	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	nummod	_	_
52	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	fancied	fancy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come in** | past | Teddy's mother |  |  |  | then | with a white face | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | Teddy's mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **leave** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | of Nag | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of nag=Destination |
| 4 | **drag** | past | Rikki tikki | tikki |  | Teddy's bedroom |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to bedroom=Destination |
| 5 | **spend** | past | Rikki tikki *not said here* | half rest of the night |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Asset |
| 6 | **shake** | gerund | Rikki tikki *not said here* | tikki |  |  |  | tenderly *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 7 | **find out** | to-infinitive | Rikki tikki *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **break** | past · passive |  | tikki |  |  |  | into forty pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into piece=Result |
| 9 | **fancy** | past | tikki |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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