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title: Both beasts dropped down with a snort of disgust, for neither horse… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Both beasts dropped down with a snort of disgust, for neither horse nor mule can bear to listen to an elephant’s voice. Who acts: beasts, horse, disgust. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 163

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Both beasts dropped down with a snort of disgust, for neither horse nor mule can bear to listen to an elephant’s voice.

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**Who acts:** beasts, horse, disgust · **What happens:** drop down, bear, listen, snort

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beasts, horse, disgust), 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:pg236:19:163
# text = Both beasts dropped down with a snort of disgust, for neither horse nor mule can bear to listen to an elephant’s voice.
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	snort	snort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	disgust	disgust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	15	cc	_	_
15	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop down** | past | both beasts |  |  |  |  | with a snort of disgust | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** | can | neither horse nor mule |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **listen** | to-infinitive | neither horse nor mule *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a elephant's voice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to voice=Theme |
| 4 | **snort** |  | disgust |  |  |  |  |  | nom snort «communication intransitive»: of=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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