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title: They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera--the Panther--and no man’s plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away. Who acts: muscles, I, paw. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2, with its 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 105

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They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera--the Panther--and no man’s plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away.

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**Who acts:** muscles, I, paw · **What happens:** feed, feel, be, break, come away, blow · **To what, where:** me, bars, Bagheera, silly lock

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (muscles, I, paw), 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:pg236:2:105
# text = They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera--the Panther--and no man’s plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	till	till	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	plaything	plaything	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
43	away	away	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | past | muscles *= muscle* |  | me | bars |  | from a iron pan | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 2 | **feel** | past | I |  |  |  | night |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | past | I | Bagheera |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **break** | past | I | the silly lock |  |  |  | with one blow of my paw | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent lock=Patient with blow=Instrument |
| 5 | **come away** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **blow** |  | my paw |  |  |  |  |  | nom blow «act 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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