--- title: When he felt dirty or hot he swam in the forest pools; and when he w… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: When he felt dirty or hot he swam in the forest pools; and when he wanted honey (Baloo told him that honey and nuts were just as pleasant to eat as raw meat) he climbed up for it, and that Bagheera showed him how to do. Who acts: Mowgli, Baloo, honey, Bagheera. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mowgli, Baloo, honey, Bagheera), 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:pg236:2:56 # text = When he felt dirty or hot he swam in the forest pools; and when he wanted honey (Baloo told him that honey and nuts were just as pleasant to eat as raw meat) he climbed up for it, and that Bagheera showed him how to do. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 dirty dirty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 swam swim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 pools pool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 18 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Baloo Baloo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 iobj _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 24 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 just just ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 as as ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 pleasant pleasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 advcl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 as as ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 raw raw ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 39 up up ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 that that SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 45 Bagheera Bagheera PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 46 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 47 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 iobj _ _ 48 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 50 advmod _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | past | Mowgli | | | | | dirty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **swim** | past | Mowgli | | | the forest pools | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pool=Trajectory | | 3 | **want** | past | Mowgli | honey | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot honey=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Baloo | | Mowgli | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 5 | **is** | past | honey and nuts | | | | | pleasant *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **eat** | to-infinitive | honey and nuts *not said here* | | | | | as raw meat | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **climb up** | past | Mowgli | | | | | for honey | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **show** | past | Bagheera | | Mowgli | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 9 | **do** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/2/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/2/57/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/2/)