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title: There was a howl of fright and rage, and then as Bagheera tripped on… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a howl of fright and rage, and then as Bagheera tripped on the rolling kicking bodies beneath him, a monkey shouted: “There is only one here! Who acts: howl, Bagheera, rolling, fright. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 56

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There was a howl of fright and rage, and then as Bagheera tripped on the rolling kicking bodies beneath him, a monkey shouted: “There is only one here!

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**Who acts:** howl, Bagheera, rolling, fright · **What happens:** be, trip, kick, shout, howl · **To what, where:** rolling, bodies, monkey, one · **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 (howl, Bagheera, rolling, fright), 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:pg236:6:56
# text = There was a howl of fright and rage, and then as Bagheera tripped on the rolling kicking bodies beneath him, a monkey shouted: “There is only one here!
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	howl	howl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	tripped	trip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	rolling	rolling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	kicking	kick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
25	shouted	shout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	only	only	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
32	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a howl of fright and rage |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **trip** | past | Bagheera |  |  | the rolling and a monkey | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rolling=Trajectory |
| 3 | **kick** | gerund | the rolling and a monkey *not said here* | bodies |  |  |  | beneath howl | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent body=Patient beneath he=Location |
| 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | participle |  | a monkey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | one |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **howl** |  | fright and rage |  |  |  |  |  | nom howl «communication intransitive»: of=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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