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title: And so they ran, stammering with terror, to the walls and the roofs… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And so they ran, stammering with terror, to the walls and the roofs of the houses, and Baloo drew a deep breath of relief. Who acts: monkeys, Baloo. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 104

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And so they ran, stammering with terror, to the walls and the roofs of the houses, and Baloo drew a deep breath of relief.

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**Who acts:** monkeys, Baloo · **What happens:** run, stammer, draw · **To what, where:** walls, deep breath

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monkeys, 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:pg236:6:104
# text = And so they ran, stammering with terror, to the walls and the roofs of the houses, and Baloo drew a deep breath of relief.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	stammering	stammer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | monkeys *= monkey* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stammer** *speech: other* | gerund | monkeys *= monkey* *not said here* |  | the walls and the roofs of the houses |  |  | with terror | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wall=Recipient |
| 3 | **draw** | past | Baloo | a deep breath of relief |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=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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