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title: Then Little Toomai covered his face with his hands, for he was only… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Little Toomai covered his face with his hands, for he was only a child, and except where elephants were concerned, he was just as bashful as a child could be. Who acts: Little, Toomai, elephants. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16, with its dependency t
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 88

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Then Little Toomai covered his face with his hands, for he was only a child, and except where elephants were concerned, he was just as bashful as a child could be.

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**Who acts:** Little, Toomai, elephants · **What happens:** cover, be · **To what, where:** face

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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, elephants), 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:pg236:16:88
# text = Then Little Toomai covered his face with his hands, for he was only a child, and except where elephants were concerned, he was just as bashful as a child could be.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
19	except	except	ADP	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
21	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	concerned	concerned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	just	just	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	bashful	bashful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | past | Little | Toomai's face |  |  | then | with Toomai's hands | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with hand=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | Toomai |  |  |  |  | for a child | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | elephants |  |  |  |  | concerned *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | Toomai |  |  |  |  | bashful *property* | tree rules |

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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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