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title: And when the morning came and the mists were all white and cold, he… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the morning came and the mists were all white and cold, he saw the man’s child pick up a wicker pot plastered inside with earth, fill it with lumps of red-hot charcoal, put it under his blanket, and go out to tend the cows in the byre. Who acts: morning, mists, Akela. A sentence of «The Jun
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 16

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And when the morning came and the mists were all white and cold, he saw the man’s child pick up a wicker pot plastered inside with earth, fill it with lumps of red-hot charcoal, put it under his blanket, and go out to tend the cows in the byre.

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**Who acts:** morning, mists, Akela · **What happens:** come, be, see, pick up, plaster, fill · **To what, where:** child, wicker pot, pot, blanket, cows, byre

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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 (morning, mists, 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:pg236:3:16
# text = And when the morning came and the mists were all white and cold, he saw the man’s child pick up a wicker pot plastered inside with earth, fill it with lumps of red-hot charcoal, put it under his blanket, and go out to tend the cows in the byre.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mists	mist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	wicker	wicker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	plastered	plaster	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	fill	fill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	lumps	lump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	charcoal	charcoal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	under	under	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
49	out	out	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	tend	tend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	advcl	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obj	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	byre	byre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the morning |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the mists |  |  |  |  | all, white *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the mists *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | past | Akela | the man's child |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 5 | **pick up** | infinitive |  | a wicker pot |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Topic |
| 6 | **plaster** | participle |  | a wicker pot *not said here* |  |  |  | with earth; inside *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with earth=Theme |
| 7 | **fill** | infinitive |  | pot |  |  |  | with lumps of red hot charcoal | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with lump=Instrument |
| 8 | **put** | infinitive |  | pot |  | Akela's blanket |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under blanket=Destination |
| 9 | **go out** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **tend** | to-infinitive |  | the cows |  | the byre |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=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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