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title: Two Tails stamped his foot till the iron ring on it jingled. — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Two Tails stamped his foot till the iron ring on it jingled. Who acts: Two Tails, foot. 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 23

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Two Tails stamped his foot till the iron ring on it jingled.

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**Who acts:** Two Tails, foot · **What happens:** stamp, jingle · **To what, where:** foot

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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 (Two Tails, foot), 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:pg236:20:23
# text = Two Tails stamped his foot till the iron ring on it jingled.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	Tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stamped	stamp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	till	till	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	iron	iron	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	jingled	jingle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stamp** | past | Two Tails | Billy's foot |  |  | till the iron ring |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Destination |
| 2 | **jingle** | past | foot |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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