The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 51
Get round with your hind legs under you the instant you feel the rein on your neck.
Who acts: you, instant · What happens: get round, feel · To what, where: 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, instant), 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 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | round | round | ADV | _ | 1 Get | advmod |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 legs | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 legs | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 legs | amod |
| 6 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Get | obl |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Get | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 instant | det |
| 10 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feel | nsubj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 feel | nsubj |
| 12 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Get | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rein | det |
| 14 | rein | rein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feel | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 neck | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 neck | nmod:poss |
| 17 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feel | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get round | imperative | you not said here | with your hind legs; under you; round property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | the instant | the rein | your neck | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rein=Theme on neck=Location |
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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