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title: The Lone Wolf must have sprung and missed his hold, for Mowgli heard… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Lone Wolf must have sprung and missed his hold, for Mowgli heard the snap of his teeth and then a yelp as the Sambhur knocked him over with his forefoot. Who acts: Lone Wolf, Mowgli, Sambhur, Akela. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3, with its dependency 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 10

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The Lone Wolf must have sprung and missed his hold, for Mowgli heard the snap of his teeth and then a yelp as the Sambhur knocked him over with his forefoot.

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**Who acts:** Lone Wolf, Mowgli, Sambhur, Akela · **What happens:** spring, miss, hear, knock over, hold, snap · **To what, where:** hold, snap, Akela, teeth

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lone Wolf, Mowgli, Sambhur, Akela), 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:pg236:3:10
# text = The Lone Wolf must have sprung and missed his hold, for Mowgli heard the snap of his teeth and then a yelp as the Sambhur knocked him over with his forefoot.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Lone	Lone	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	sprung	spring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	snap	snap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	yelp	yelp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Sambhur	Sambhur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	over	over	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	forefoot	forefoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **spring** | must · perfect | the Lone Wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **miss** | past | the Lone Wolf *not said here* | Akela's hold |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hear** | past | Mowgli | the snap of Akela's teeth and a yelp |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer snap=Stimulus |
| 4 | **knock over** | past | the Sambhur | Akela |  |  |  | with Akela's forefoot | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with forefoot=Instrument |
| 5 | **hold** |  | Akela |  |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **snap** |  |  | Akela's teeth and a yelp |  |  |  |  | nom snap «act transitive»: of=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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