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title: She flew off her nest as Nagaina came along, and flapped her wings a… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She flew off her nest as Nagaina came along, and flapped her wings about Nagaina’s head. Who acts: wife, Nagaina. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 68

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She flew off her nest as Nagaina came along, and flapped her wings about Nagaina’s head.

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**Who acts:** wife, Nagaina · **What happens:** fly off, come along, flap · **To what, where:** nest, wings

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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 (wife, Nagaina), 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:pg236:15:68
# text = She flew off her nest as Nagaina came along, and flapped her wings about Nagaina’s head.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	along	along	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	flapped	flap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly off** | past | wife | wife's nest |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nest=Theme |
| 2 | **come along** | past | Nagaina |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **flap** | past | wife *not said here* | wife's wings |  |  |  | about Nagaina's head | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |

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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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