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title: Toomai leaned forward and looked, and he felt that the forest was aw… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Toomai leaned forward and looked, and he felt that the forest was awake below him--awake and alive and crowded. Who acts: Toomai, forest. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 36

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Toomai leaned forward and looked, and he felt that the forest was awake below him--awake and alive and crowded.

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**Who acts:** Toomai, forest · **What happens:** learn, look, feel, be

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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 (Toomai, forest), 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:pg236:17:36
# text = Toomai leaned forward and looked, and he felt that the forest was awake below him--awake and alive and crowded.
1	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	leaned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
15	below	below	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | Toomai |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look** | past | Toomai *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **feel** | past | Toomai |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past | the forest |  |  |  |  | below Toomai; awake *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | the forest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | the forest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** |  | the forest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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