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title: Now a snake, especially a wary old python like Kaa, very seldom show… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now a snake, especially a wary old python like Kaa, very seldom shows that he is angry, but Baloo and Bagheera could see the big swallowing muscles on either side of Kaa’s throat ripple and bulge. Who acts: Kaa, Baloo. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5, with
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 106

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Now a snake, especially a wary old python like Kaa, very seldom shows that he is angry, but Baloo and Bagheera could see the big swallowing muscles on either side of Kaa’s throat ripple and bulge.

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**Who acts:** Kaa, Baloo · **What happens:** show, be, see, swallow, ripple · **To what, where:** big swallowing muscles, side · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kaa, 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:pg236:5:106
# text = Now a snake, especially a wary old python like Kaa, very seldom shows that he is angry, but Baloo and Bagheera could see the big swallowing muscles on either side of Kaa’s throat ripple and bulge.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	wary	wary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	python	python	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	seldom	seldom	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	swallowing	swallow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	amod	_	_
30	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’s	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	ripple	ripple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	bulge	bulge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present |  |  |  |  |  | seldom *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Kaa |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | could | Baloo and Bagheera | the big swallowing muscles |  | either side of Kaa's throat ripple and bulge |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer muscle=Stimulus |
| 4 | **swallow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **ripple** |  | Kaa |  |  |  |  |  | nom ripple «event intransitive»: poss=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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