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title: Baloo and Bagheera stood still as stone, growling in their throats,… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Baloo and Bagheera stood still as stone, growling in their throats, their neck hair bristling, and Mowgli watched and wondered. Who acts: Baloo, neck hair, Mowgli. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 59

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Baloo and Bagheera stood still as stone, growling in their throats, their neck hair bristling, and Mowgli watched and wondered.

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**Who acts:** Baloo, neck hair, Mowgli · **What happens:** stand, growl, bristle, watch, wonder

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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 (Baloo, neck hair, 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:pg236:7:59
# text = Baloo and Bagheera stood still as stone, growling in their throats, their neck hair bristling, and Mowgli watched and wondered.
1	Baloo	baloo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	growling	growl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	throats	throat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	bristling	bristle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Baloo and Bagheera |  |  |  | still | as stone | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **growl** | gerund | Baloo and Bagheera *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in Bagheera's throats  throats's neck hair | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in throat=Theme |
| 3 | **bristle** | gerund | throats's neck hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location |
| 4 | **watch** | past | Mowgli |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | Mowgli *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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