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title: Teacher of the Law--cub-beater--a mile of that rolling to and fro wo… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Teacher of the Law--cub-beater--a mile of that rolling to and fro would burst thee open. Who acts: mile, Teacher. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 31

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Teacher of the Law--cub-beater--a mile of that rolling to and fro would burst thee open.

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**Who acts:** mile, Teacher · **What happens:** roll, fro, burst · **To what, where:** thee

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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 (mile, Teacher), 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:pg236:5:31
# text = Teacher of the Law--cub-beater--a mile of that rolling to and fro would burst thee open.
1	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Law	Law	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	beater	beater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nmod	_	_
14	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	fro	fro	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	burst	burst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
20	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	obj	_	_
21	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | gerund | a mile of that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fro** | infinitive | a mile of that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **burst** | would | Teacher of the Law and cub beater | thee |  |  |  | open *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thou=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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