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title: If Darzee had helped they might have turned her, but Nagaina only lo… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If Darzee had helped they might have turned her, but Nagaina only lowered her hood and went on. Who acts: Darzee, wings, 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 69

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If Darzee had helped they might have turned her, but Nagaina only lowered her hood and went on.

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**Who acts:** Darzee, wings, Nagaina · **What happens:** help, turn, lower, go on · **To what, where:** Darzee, hood

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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 (Darzee, wings, 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:pg236:15:69
# text = If Darzee had helped they might have turned her, but Nagaina only lowered her hood and went on.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Darzee	Darzee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	helped	help	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
8	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	lowered	lower	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hood	hood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | past · perfect | Darzee |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **turn** | might · perfect | wings *= wing* | Darzee |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme she=Result |
| 3 | **lower** | past | Nagaina | Nagaina's hood |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hood=Theme |
| 4 | **go on** | past | Nagaina *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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