--- title: The dew fell from the trees till there was no more left to fall, and… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: The dew fell from the trees till there was no more left to fall, and the booming went on, and the ground rocked and shivered, and Little Toomai put his hands up to his ears to shut out the sound. Who acts: dew, booming, ground, Little Toomai. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The J --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/17/81/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jungle Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/) / [The Jungle Book, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/17/) / 81 # The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 81 The dew fell from the trees till there was no more left to fall, and the booming went on, and the ground rocked and shivered, and Little Toomai put his hands up to his ears to shut out the sound. **Who acts:** dew, booming, ground, Little Toomai · **What happens:** fall, not be, go on, rock, shiver, put up · **To what, where:** trees, hands, sound 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 (dew, booming, ground, Little Toomai), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg236:17:81 # text = The dew fell from the trees till there was no more left to fall, and the booming went on, and the ground rocked and shivered, and Little Toomai put his hands up to his ears to shut out the sound. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dew dew NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 till till SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 8 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 12 expl _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 no no ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 12 advmod _ _ 12 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 booming booming NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 on on ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 rocked rock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 shivered shiver VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 Little Little ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 Toomai Toomai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 up up ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 shut shut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 41 out out ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | past | the dew | | | the trees | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **not** **is** | past | the dew *not said here* | | | there | | left *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **fall** | to-infinitive | the dew *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **go on** | past | the booming | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **rock** | past | the ground | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **shiver** | past | the ground *not said here* | | | | | | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **put up** | past | Little Toomai | Toomai's hands | | | | to Toomai's ears | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | | 8 | **shut out** | to-infinitive | Little Toomai *not said here* | the sound | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sound=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/17/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/17/82/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/17/)