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title: When he heaved himself up on his front flippers he stood more than f… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he heaved himself up on his front flippers he stood more than four feet clear of the ground, and his weight, if anyone had been bold enough to weigh him, was nearly seven hundred pounds. Who acts: Catch, anyone. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10, with 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 112

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When he heaved himself up on his front flippers he stood more than four feet clear of the ground, and his weight, if anyone had been bold enough to weigh him, was nearly seven hundred pounds.

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**Who acts:** Catch, anyone · **What happens:** heave up, stand, be, weigh · **To what, where:** Catch, front flippers, weight, hundred pounds

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Catch, anyone), 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:pg236:10:112
# text = When he heaved himself up on his front flippers he stood more than four feet clear of the ground, and his weight, if anyone had been bold enough to weigh him, was nearly seven hundred pounds.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heaved	heave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	flippers	flipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	14	advmod	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	29	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	cop	_	_
29	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
30	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	weigh	weigh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
36	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	compound	_	_
38	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heave up** | past | Catch | Catch |  | Catch's front flippers |  |  | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Catch | Catch's weight |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | anyone |  |  |  |  | bold, enough *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **weigh** | to-infinitive | anyone *not said here* | Catch |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme he=Value |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | hundred pounds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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