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title: The screen-work broke and fell away in a cloud of dust and rubbish,… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The screen-work broke and fell away in a cloud of dust and rubbish, and Mowgli leaped through the opening and flung himself between Baloo and Bagheera--an arm around each big neck. Who acts: screen work, Mowgli. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7, with its de
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 18

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The screen-work broke and fell away in a cloud of dust and rubbish, and Mowgli leaped through the opening and flung himself between Baloo and Bagheera--an arm around each big neck.

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**Who acts:** screen work, Mowgli · **What happens:** break, fall away, leap, fling, cloud · **To what, where:** opening, Mowgli, dust

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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 (screen work, 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:pg236:7:18
# text = The screen-work broke and fell away in a cloud of dust and rubbish, and Mowgli leaped through the opening and flung himself between Baloo and Bagheera--an arm around each big neck.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	leaped	leap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	opening	opening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	_
26	between	between	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
33	around	around	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
35	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | the screen work |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **fall away** | past | the screen work *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in a cloud of dust and rubbish; away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in cloud=Attribute |
| 3 | **leap** | past | Mowgli |  |  | the opening |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through opening=Trajectory |
| 4 | **fling** | past | Mowgli *not said here* | Mowgli |  |  |  | between Baloo and Bagheera | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme between baloo=Destination |
| 5 | **cloud** |  |  | dust and rubbish |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon 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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