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title: He had no intention of losing any advantage of the ground, and coile… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He had no intention of losing any advantage of the ground, and coiled and uncoiled himself once or twice, to be sure that every foot of his long body was in working order. Who acts: Kaa, intention, foot. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6, with its dependency
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 90

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He had no intention of losing any advantage of the ground, and coiled and uncoiled himself once or twice, to be sure that every foot of his long body was in working order.

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**Who acts:** Kaa, intention, foot · **What happens:** have, lose, uncoil, be · **To what, where:** intention, advantage, Kaa, working order

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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 (Kaa, intention, foot), 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:pg236:6:90
# text = He had no intention of losing any advantage of the ground, and coiled and uncoiled himself once or twice, to be sure that every foot of his long body was in working order.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	intention	intention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	coiled	coiled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	uncoiled	uncoil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	advmod	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	working	working	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Kaa | no intention |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Patient |
| 2 | **lose** | gerund | no intention *not said here* | any advantage of the ground |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Eventuality |
| 3 | **uncoil** | past | Kaa *not said here* | Kaa |  |  |  | once *property* | vn separate-23.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | every foot of Kaa's long body |  |  | working order |  |  | tree rules |

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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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