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title: Then Little Toomai would climb up to the top of one of the quivering… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Little Toomai would climb up to the top of one of the quivering stockade posts, his sun-bleached brown hair flying loose all over his shoulders, and he looking like a goblin in the torch-light. Who acts: Little Toomai, bleached brown hair, Toomai. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipl
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 20

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Then Little Toomai would climb up to the top of one of the quivering stockade posts, his sun-bleached brown hair flying loose all over his shoulders, and he looking like a goblin in the torch-light.

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**Who acts:** Little Toomai, bleached brown hair, Toomai · **What happens:** climb up, quiver, bleach, fly, look · **To what, where:** bleached brown hair, top, shoulders

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Toomai, bleached brown hair, Toomai), 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:pg236:16:20
# text = Then Little Toomai would climb up to the top of one of the quivering stockade posts, his sun-bleached brown hair flying loose all over his shoulders, and he looking like a goblin in the torch-light.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	quivering	quiver	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
15	stockade	stockade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
19	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	bleached	bleach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
22	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
24	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	loose	loose	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	all	all	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	goblin	goblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb up** | would | Little Toomai | Toomai's bleached brown hair |  | the top of one of the quivering stockade posts | then |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination |
| 2 | **quiver** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **bleach** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **fly** | gerund | Toomai's bleached brown hair *not said here* |  |  | Toomai's shoulders |  | loose *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over shoulder=Location |
| 5 | **look** | gerund | Toomai |  |  |  |  | like a goblin; in the torch light | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in light=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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