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title: The cloud hid the moon, and as Mowgli wondered what would come next… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The cloud hid the moon, and as Mowgli wondered what would come next he heard Bagheera’s light feet on the terrace. Who acts: cloud, Mowgli. 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 54

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The cloud hid the moon, and as Mowgli wondered what would come next he heard Bagheera’s light feet on the terrace.

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**Who acts:** cloud, Mowgli · **What happens:** hide, wonder, come, hear · **To what, where:** moon, light feet, terrace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, 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:pg236:6:54
# text = The cloud hid the moon, and as Mowgli wondered what would come next he heard Bagheera’s light feet on the terrace.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
14	next	next	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
17	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	terrace	terrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past | the cloud | the moon |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Patient |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | Mowgli |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hear** | past | Mowgli | Bagheera's light feet |  | the terrace |  | next *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer foot=Stimulus |

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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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