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title: Gray Brother trotted off and dropped into a hole. — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Gray Brother trotted off and dropped into a hole. Who acts: Gray. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 125

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Gray Brother trotted off and dropped into a hole.

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**Who acts:** Gray · **What happens:** trot off, drop · **To what, where:** hole

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gray), 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:pg236:8:125
# text = Gray Brother trotted off and dropped into a hole.
1	Gray	Gray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Brother	Brother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	trotted	trot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trot off** | past | Gray |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drop** | participle | Gray *not said here* |  |  | a hole |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into hole=Trajectory |

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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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