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title: “What is this new folly, little dreamer of dreams?” said Bagheera. — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “What is this new folly, little dreamer of dreams?” said Bagheera. Who acts: new folly. 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 62

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“What is this new folly, little dreamer of dreams?” said Bagheera.

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**Who acts:** new folly · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** new folly · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (new folly), 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:pg236:4:62
# text = “What is this new folly, little dreamer of dreams?” said Bagheera.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	dreamer	dreamer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | this new folly |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | this new folly |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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