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title: When the moon rose over the plain, making it look all milky, the hor… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the moon rose over the plain, making it look all milky, the horrified villagers saw Mowgli, with two wolves at his heels and a bundle on his head, trotting across at the steady wolf’s trot that eats up the long miles like fire. Who acts: moon, horrified villagers, trot, steady wolf. A sentence 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 171

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When the moon rose over the plain, making it look all milky, the horrified villagers saw Mowgli, with two wolves at his heels and a bundle on his head, trotting across at the steady wolf’s trot that eats up the long miles like fire.

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**Who acts:** moon, horrified villagers, trot, steady wolf · **What happens:** rise, make, look, see, trot, eat up · **To what, where:** plain, moon, Mowgli, trot, long miles

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, horrified villagers, trot, steady wolf), 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:pg236:9:171
# text = When the moon rose over the plain, making it look all milky, the horrified villagers saw Mowgli, with two wolves at his heels and a bundle on his head, trotting across at the steady wolf’s trot that eats up the long miles like fire.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	milky	milky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	horrified	horrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	villagers	villager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	trotting	trot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
35	across	across	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’s	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	trot	trot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
43	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
44	up	up	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
48	like	like	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the moon |  |  | the plain |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over plain=Location |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | the moon *not said here* | moon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive | moon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | milky *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | past | the horrified villagers | Mowgli |  |  |  | with two wolves at Mowgli's heels and a bundle on Mowgli's head | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mowgli=Stimulus |
| 5 | **trot** | gerund | the horrified villagers *not said here* |  |  | the steady wolf's trot |  | across *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at trot=Trajectory |
| 6 | **eat up** | present | the steady wolf's trot | the long miles |  |  |  | like fire | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mile=Patient |
| 7 | **trot** |  | the steady wolf |  |  |  |  |  | nom trot «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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