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title: But he did not grow too proud, and he kept that garden as a mongoose… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But he did not grow too proud, and he kept that garden as a mongoose should keep it, with tooth and jump and spring and bite, till never a cobra dared show its head inside the walls. Who acts: tikki, mongoose, cobra. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15, with 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 101

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But he did not grow too proud, and he kept that garden as a mongoose should keep it, with tooth and jump and spring and bite, till never a cobra dared show its head inside the walls.

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**Who acts:** tikki, mongoose, cobra · **What happens:** not grow, keep, jump, spring, bite, dare · **To what, where:** garden, cobra, head, walls

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tikki, mongoose, cobra), 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:pg236:15:101
# text = But he did not grow too proud, and he kept that garden as a mongoose should keep it, with tooth and jump and spring and bite, till never a cobra dared show its head inside the walls.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mongoose	mongoose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	spring	spring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	till	till	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	cobra	cobra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	dared	dare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **grow** | past · do-support | tikki |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | past | tikki | that garden |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | should | a mongoose | garden |  |  |  | with tooth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **jump** | infinitive | a mongoose *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **spring** | infinitive | a mongoose *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **bite** | infinitive | a mongoose *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **dare** | participle |  | a cobra *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **show** | present | a cobra | garden's head |  | the walls |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent head=Recipient |

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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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