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title: And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know tha… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat. Who acts: Mowgli, boy. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 67

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And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat.

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**Who acts:** Mowgli, boy · **What happens:** grow, not know, learn, have, think, eat · **To what, where:** lessons, nothing, world

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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 (Mowgli, boy), 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:pg236:2:67
# text = And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	25	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	except	except	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Mowgli |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | past | Mowgli *not said here* |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | must | a boy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **know** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **learn** | present · progressive | Mowgli | any lessons |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic |
| 6 | **have** | present |  | nothing |  | the world |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 7 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  | of things | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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