The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 52

If you haven’t room to swing round, rear up a little and come round on your hind legs.

Who acts: you · What happens: n't, swing, rear up, come round · To what, where: room, little, hind legs

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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 n’t	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 n’t	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 n’t	aux
4	n’t	n't	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 rear	advcl
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 n’t	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 swing	mark
7	swing	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 room	acl
8	round	round	ADV	_	7 swing	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 n’t	punct
10	rear	rear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 rear	compound:prt
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 little	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rear	obl:unmarked
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 come	cc
15	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 rear	conj
16	round	round	ADV	_	15 come	advmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 legs	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 legs	nmod:poss
19	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 legs	amod
20	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 come	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 rear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	n't a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect	you	room			tree rules
2	swing	to-infinitive	you not said here	room not said here		round property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	rear up	imperative	you not said here	a little			vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	come round	present	you not said here		your hind legs	round property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=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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