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title: He strode forward to where Shere Khan sat blinking stupidly at the f… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He strode forward to where Shere Khan sat blinking stupidly at the flames, and caught him by the tuft on his chin. Who acts: Mowgli, Shere. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 131

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He strode forward to where Shere Khan sat blinking stupidly at the flames, and caught him by the tuft on his chin.

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**Who acts:** Mowgli, Shere · **What happens:** stride, sit, blink, catch · **To what, where:** flames, Shere

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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 (Mowgli, Shere), 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:pg236:3:131
# text = He strode forward to where Shere Khan sat blinking stupidly at the flames, and caught him by the tuft on his chin.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	strode	stride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
6	Shere	Shere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	blinking	blink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
10	stupidly	stupidly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tuft	tuft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stride** | past | Mowgli |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | past | Shere |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **blink** | gerund | Shere *not said here* |  |  | the flames |  | stupidly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at flame=Location |
| 4 | **catch** | past |  | Shere |  |  |  | by the tuft on Shere's chin | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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