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title: They clung around the necks of the big stone idols and shrieked as t… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They clung around the necks of the big stone idols and shrieked as they skipped along the battlements, while Mowgli, dancing in the summerhouse, put his eye to the screenwork and hooted owl-fashion between his front teeth, to show his derision and contempt. Who acts: monkeys, Mowgli. A sentence of «
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 110

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They clung around the necks of the big stone idols and shrieked as they skipped along the battlements, while Mowgli, dancing in the summerhouse, put his eye to the screenwork and hooted owl-fashion between his front teeth, to show his derision and contempt.

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**Who acts:** monkeys, Mowgli · **What happens:** cling, shriek, skip, dance, put, hoot · **To what, where:** Mowgli, necks, battlements, summerhouse, eye, owl fashion

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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, Mowgli), 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:pg236:6:110
# text = They clung around the necks of the big stone idols and shrieked as they skipped along the battlements, while Mowgli, dancing in the summerhouse, put his eye to the screenwork and hooted owl-fashion between his front teeth, to show his derision and contempt.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	clung	cling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	around	around	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	necks	neck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	idols	idol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	shrieked	shriek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	skipped	skip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	along	along	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	battlements	battlement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	summerhouse	summerhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	screenwork	screenwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	hooted	hoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
36	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	between	between	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	derision	derision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	contempt	contempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cling** | past | monkeys *= monkey* | Mowgli |  | the necks of the big stone idols |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around neck=Location |
| 2 | **shriek** | participle | monkeys *= monkey* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **skip** | past | monkeys *= monkey* |  |  | the battlements |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along battlement=Trajectory |
| 4 | **dance** | gerund | monkeys *= monkey* *not said here* |  |  | the summerhouse |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in summerhouse=Location |
| 5 | **put** | infinitive | monkeys *= monkey* *not said here* | Mowgli's eye |  |  |  | to the screenwork | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eye=Goal |
| 6 | **hoot** | past | monkeys *= monkey* *not said here* | owl fashion |  |  |  | between Mowgli's front teeth | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fashion=Theme |
| 7 | **show** | to-infinitive | monkeys *= monkey* *not said here* | Mowgli's derision and contempt |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent derision=Recipient |
| 8 | **deride** |  | Mowgli |  |  |  |  |  | nom derision «communication transitive»: 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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