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title: So I buttoned her into the breast of my overcoat, and Two Tails shuf… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So I buttoned her into the breast of my overcoat, and Two Tails shuffled and stamped and growled to himself. Who acts: I, 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 62

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So I buttoned her into the breast of my overcoat, and Two Tails shuffled and stamped and growled to himself.

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**Who acts:** I, Two Tails · **What happens:** button, shuffle, stamp, growl · **To what, where:** Vixen, breast, dog

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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 (I, 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:pg236:20:62
# text = So I buttoned her into the breast of my overcoat, and Two Tails shuffled and stamped and growled to himself.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	buttoned	button	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	overcoat	overcoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	Tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	shuffled	shuffle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	stamped	stamp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	growled	growl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **button** | past | I | Vixen |  | the breast of my overcoat |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 2 | **shuffle** | participle | Two Tails |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stamp** | participle | Two Tails *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **growl** | participle | Two Tails *not said here* |  | dog |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |

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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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