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title: A fresh shower came down on their heads and the two trotted away, ta… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A fresh shower came down on their heads and the two trotted away, taking Mowgli with them. Who acts: fresh shower, two. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 116

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A fresh shower came down on their heads and the two trotted away, taking Mowgli with them.

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**Who acts:** fresh shower, two · **What happens:** come down, trot away, take · **To what, where:** heads, Mowgli

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fresh shower, two), 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:pg236:4:116
# text = A fresh shower came down on their heads and the two trotted away, taking Mowgli with them.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	shower	shower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
12	trotted	trot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
16	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **come down** | past | a fresh shower |  |  | People's heads |  | down *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on head=Location |
| 2 | **trot away** | past | the two |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | the two *not said here* |  | Mowgli |  |  | with People | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mowgli=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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