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title: But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down. Who acts: Bagheera, wild honey. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 17

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But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down.

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**Who acts:** Bagheera, wild honey · **What happens:** have, drip · **To what, where:** voice, tree

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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 (Bagheera, wild honey), 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:pg236:2:17
# text = But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	dripping	drip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	softer	soft	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **have** | past | Bagheera | a voice |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient |
| 2 | **drip** | gerund | wild honey *not said here* |  |  | a tree |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from tree=Source |

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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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