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title: Two Tails shuffled and squeaked. — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Two Tails shuffled and squeaked. Who acts: Two Tails. 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 51

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Two Tails shuffled and squeaked.

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**Who acts:** Two Tails · **What happens:** shuffle, squeak

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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), 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:pg236:20:51
# text = Two Tails shuffled and squeaked.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	Tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shuffled	shuffle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	squeaked	squeak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shuffle** | participle | Two Tails |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **squeak** | participle | Two Tails *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «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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