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title: Then the cavalry came up, to the beautiful cavalry canter of “Bonnie… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the cavalry came up, to the beautiful cavalry canter of “Bonnie Dundee,” and Vixen cocked her ear where she sat on the dog-cart. Who acts: cavalry, Vixen, Bonnie Dundee. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 145

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Then the cavalry came up, to the beautiful cavalry canter of “Bonnie Dundee,” and Vixen cocked her ear where she sat on the dog-cart.

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**Who acts:** cavalry, Vixen, Bonnie Dundee · **What happens:** come up, cock, sit, canter · **To what, where:** beautiful cavalry canter, ear, dog cart

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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 (cavalry, Vixen, Bonnie Dundee), 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:pg236:20:145
# text = Then the cavalry came up, to the beautiful cavalry canter of “Bonnie Dundee,” and Vixen cocked her ear where she sat on the dog-cart.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cavalry	cavalry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	cavalry	cavalry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	canter	canter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Bonnie	Bonnie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Dundee	Dundee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	Vixen	Vixen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	cocked	cock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | past | the cavalry |  |  | the beautiful cavalry canter of Bonnie Dundee | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to canter=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **cock** | past | Vixen | Vixen's ear |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient |
| 3 | **sit** | past | Vixen |  |  | the dog cart |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on cart=Location |
| 4 | **canter** |  | Bonnie Dundee |  |  |  |  |  | nom canter «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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