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title: The crowd parted as the woman beckoned Mowgli to her hut, where ther… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The crowd parted as the woman beckoned Mowgli to her hut, where there was a red lacquered bedstead, a great earthen grain chest with funny raised patterns on it, half a dozen copper cooking pots, an image of a Hindu god in a little alcove, and on the wall a real looking glass, such as they sell at t
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 175

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The crowd parted as the woman beckoned Mowgli to her hut, where there was a red lacquered bedstead, a great earthen grain chest with funny raised patterns on it, half a dozen copper cooking pots, an image of a Hindu god in a little alcove, and on the wall a real looking glass, such as they sell at the country fairs.

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**Who acts:** crowd, pots · **What happens:** part, beckon, lacquer, be, raise, look · **To what, where:** crowd, Mowgli, hut, wall, red lacquered bedstead, country fairs

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crowd, pots), 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:pg236:7:175
# text = The crowd parted as the woman beckoned Mowgli to her hut, where there was a red lacquered bedstead, a great earthen grain chest with funny raised patterns on it, half a dozen copper cooking pots, an image of a Hindu god in a little alcove, and on the wall a real looking glass, such as they sell at the country fairs.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	parted	part	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
7	beckoned	beckon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	lacquered	lacquer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	bedstead	bedstead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	earthen	earthen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	patterns	pattern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
33	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	38	det:predet	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
35	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
36	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
37	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	Hindu	hindu	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	alcove	alcove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
52	on	on	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
56	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
57	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	58	amod	_	_
58	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
60	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	63	case	_	_
61	as	as	ADP	IN	_	60	fixed	_	_
62	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
63	sell	sell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	conj	_	_
64	at	at	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
66	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	compound	_	_
67	fairs	fair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **part** | participle |  | the crowd *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **beckon** | past | the crowd | Mowgli | crowd's hut and a red lacquered bedstead | the wall |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mowgli=Theme to hut=Recipient |
| 3 | **lacquer** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the crowd *not said here* | a red lacquered bedstead |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **raise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **sell** | present | pots *= pot* |  |  | the country fairs |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent at fair=Asset |
| 8 | **image** |  |  | a Hindu god in a little alcove |  |  |  |  | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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