The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 49

How can you do anything, unless you can spin round at once when the rein is pressed on your neck?

Who acts: you · What happens: do, spin round, press · To what, where: anything, rein, neck

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 do	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 spin	advcl
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 do	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spin	punct
7	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	10 spin	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 spin	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 spin	aux
10	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	round	round	ADV	_	10 spin	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 spin	obl
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 pressed	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rein	det
16	rein	rein	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pressed	nsubj:pass
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 pressed	aux:pass
18	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 spin	advcl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 neck	case
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 neck	nmod:poss
21	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pressed	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 spin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	can	you	anything			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
2	spin round	can	you			round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory
3	press	present · passive		the rein	your neck		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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.

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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