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title: When that cloud covers the moon I shall go to the terrace. — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When that cloud covers the moon I shall go to the terrace. Who acts: cloud, I. 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 50

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When that cloud covers the moon I shall go to the terrace.

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**Who acts:** cloud, I · **What happens:** cover, go · **To what, where:** moon, terrace

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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 (cloud, I), 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:pg236:6:50
# text = When that cloud covers the moon I shall go to the terrace.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	covers	cover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	terrace	terrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | present | that cloud | the moon |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme moon=Destination |
| 2 | **go** | shall | I |  |  | the terrace |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to terrace=Initial\_Location |

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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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