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title: “No one then is to be feared,” Baloo wound up, patting his big furry… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “No one then is to be feared,” Baloo wound up, patting his big furry stomach with pride. Who acts: Baloo. 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 57

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“No one then is to be feared,” Baloo wound up, patting his big furry stomach with pride.

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**Who acts:** Baloo · **What happens:** fear, wound up, pat · **To what, where:** one, big furry stomach

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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 (Baloo), 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:pg236:4:57
# text = “No one then is to be feared,” Baloo wound up, patting his big furry stomach with pride.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	feared	fear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	wound	wound	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	patting	pat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	furry	furry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | no one |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **wound up** | infinitive | Baloo |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **pat** | gerund | Baloo *not said here* | Baloo's big furry stomach |  |  |  | with pride | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent stomach=Experiencer with pride=Instrument |

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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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