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title: He flung the fire pot on the ground, and some of the red coals lit a… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He flung the fire pot on the ground, and some of the red coals lit a tuft of dried moss that flared up, as all the Council drew back in terror before the leaping flames. Who acts: man, some, dried moss, Council. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3, with its de
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 116

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He flung the fire pot on the ground, and some of the red coals lit a tuft of dried moss that flared up, as all the Council drew back in terror before the leaping flames.

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**Who acts:** man, some, dried moss, Council · **What happens:** fling, light, dry, flare up, draw back · **To what, where:** fire pot, ground, tuft, terror

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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 (man, some, dried moss, Council), 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:pg236:3:116
# text = He flung the fire pot on the ground, and some of the red coals lit a tuft of dried moss that flared up, as all the Council drew back in terror before the leaping flames.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	lit	light	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	tuft	tuft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	flared	flare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
31	back	back	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	before	before	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	leaping	leaping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fling** | past | man | the fire pot |  | the ground |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent pot=Theme on ground=Destination |
| 2 | **light** | past | some | a tuft of dried moss |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tuft=Product |
| 3 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **flare up** | past | dried moss |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **draw back** | past | the Council |  |  | terror | before the leaping flames |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in terror=Destination |

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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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