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title: My tail’s all muddy, and he’ll have two hours’ hard work dressing me… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: My tail’s all muddy, and he’ll have two hours’ hard work dressing me for parade.” Who acts: tail, Dick, hard work. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 142

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My tail’s all muddy, and he’ll have two hours’ hard work dressing me for parade.”

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**Who acts:** tail, Dick, hard work · **What happens:** be, have, dress · **To what, where:** me

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tail, Dick, hard work), 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:pg236:20:142
# text = My tail’s all muddy, and he’ll have two hours’ hard work dressing me for parade.”
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	muddy	muddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
16	dressing	dress	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	parade	parade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | My tail |  |  |  |  | all, muddy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | future | Dick |  |  |  | hour |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dress** | gerund | hard work *not said here* | me |  |  |  | for parade | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |

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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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