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title: Little Toomai was just going to sleep, too, when he heard the coir s… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Little Toomai was just going to sleep, too, when he heard the coir string snap with a little “tang,” and Kala Nag rolled out of his pickets as slowly and as silently as a cloud rolls out of the mouth of a valley. Who acts: Little Toomai, Toomai, Kala, cloud. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyar
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 26

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Little Toomai was just going to sleep, too, when he heard the coir string snap with a little “tang,” and Kala Nag rolled out of his pickets as slowly and as silently as a cloud rolls out of the mouth of a valley.

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**Who acts:** Little Toomai, Toomai, Kala, cloud · **What happens:** go, sleep, hear, roll out · **To what, where:** string snap, pickets, mouth

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 17. 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, Toomai, Kala, cloud), 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:pg236:17:26
# text = Little Toomai was just going to sleep, too, when he heard the coir string snap with a little “tang,” and Kala Nag rolled out of his pickets as slowly and as silently as a cloud rolls out of the mouth of a valley.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	coir	coir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	snap	snap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	tang	tang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	Kala	Kala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	Nag	Nag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
28	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	pickets	picket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
33	as	as	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	as	as	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	34	conj	_	_
38	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	rolls	roll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
42	out	out	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · progressive | Little Toomai |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | Little Toomai *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | past | Toomai | the string snap |  |  |  | with a little tang | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer snap=Stimulus |
| 4 | **roll out** | past | Kala | Kala's pickets |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picket=Agent |
| 5 | **roll out** | present | a cloud | the mouth of a valley |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Agent |

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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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