--- title: Then Rikki-tikki danced in a circle to get behind her, and Nagaina s… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then Rikki-tikki danced in a circle to get behind her, and Nagaina spun round to keep her head to his head, so that the rustle of her tail on the matting sounded like dry leaves blown along by the wind. Who acts: Rikki, rustle, tail. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Boo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/15/61/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jungle Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/) / [The Jungle Book, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/15/) / 61 # The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 61 Then Rikki-tikki danced in a circle to get behind her, and Nagaina spun round to keep her head to his head, so that the rustle of her tail on the matting sounded like dry leaves blown along by the wind. **Who acts:** Rikki, rustle, tail · **What happens:** dance, get, spin round, keep, sound, blow · **To what, where:** tikki, circle, head, dry leaves, matting 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 (Rikki, rustle, tail), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg236:15:61 # text = Then Rikki-tikki danced in a circle to get behind her, and Nagaina spun round to keep her head to his head, so that the rustle of her tail on the matting sounded like dry leaves blown along by the wind. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 2 Rikki Rikki PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 tikki tikki NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 5 danced dance VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 circle circle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 11 behind behind ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 Nagaina Nagaina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 spun spin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 round round ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 26 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 36 mark _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 fixed _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 rustle rustle NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 matting matting NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 36 sounded sound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 37 like like ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 40 blown blow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 acl _ _ 41 along along ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 by by ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dance** | participle | | tikki *not said here* | | a circle | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in circle=Location | | 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | | | | | | behind Rikki | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **spin round** | past | Rikki | | | | then | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Rikki *not said here* | Nagaina's head | | | | to head's head | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 5 | **sound** | past | the rustle of Nagaina's tail on the matting | | | | | like dry leaves | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **blow** | participle | | dry leaves *not said here* | | | | by the wind; along *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **rustle** | | Nagaina's tail | | | the matting | | | nom rustle «event intransitive»: of=agent on=place | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/15/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/15/62/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/15/)