The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 74

The proper thing to do is to climb up a mountain with a well-balanced saddle, hang on by all four feet and your ears too, and creep and crawl and wriggle along, till you come out hundreds of feet above anyone else on a ledge where there’s just room enough for your hoofs.

Who acts: proper thing, you · What happens: do, be, balance, hang on, creep, crawl · To what, where: hundreds, anyone

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 (proper thing, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 climb	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thing	acl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 climb	cop
7	to	to	PART	_	8 climb	mark
8	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 climb	compound:prt
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 mountain	det
11	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 climb	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	17 saddle	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 saddle	det
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 balanced	advmod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 well	punct
16	balanced	balance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 saddle	amod
17	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mountain	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hang	punct
19	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 climb	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	19 hang	compound:prt
21	by	by	ADP	_	24 feet	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 feet	det
23	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 feet	nummod
24	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hang	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ears	cc
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 ears	nmod:poss
27	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 feet	conj
28	too	too	ADV	_	19 hang	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 creep	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 creep	cc
31	creep	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 climb	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 crawl	cc
33	crawl	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 creep	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 wriggle	cc
35	wriggle	wriggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 creep	conj
36	along	along	ADV	_	35 wriggle	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 come	punct
38	till	till	SCONJ	_	40 come	mark
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 come	nsubj
40	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 climb	conj
41	out	out	ADP	_	40 come	compound:prt
42	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 come	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 feet	case
44	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 hundreds	nmod
45	above	above	ADP	_	46 anyone	case
46	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	40 come	obl
47	else	else	ADV	_	46 anyone	advmod
48	on	on	ADP	_	50 ledge	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 ledge	det
50	ledge	ledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 anyone	nmod
51	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	53 ’s	advmod
52	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	53 ’s	expl
53	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 ledge	acl:relcl
54	just	just	ADV	_	55 room	advmod
55	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 ’s	obl
56	enough	enough	ADV	_	53 ’s	advmod
57	for	for	ADP	_	59 hoofs	case
58	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 hoofs	nmod:poss
59	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 ’s	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 climb	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	to-infinitive	the proper thing not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the proper thing			climb property	tree rules
3	balance	participle				well property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hang on	infinitive	the proper thing not said here			by all four feet and your ears	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by foot=Location
5	creep	present					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	crawl	present					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	wriggle	present				along property	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	come out	present	you	hundreds of feet	anyone		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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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