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title: He would put his head on one side, as though he were afraid to look… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He would put his head on one side, as though he were afraid to look his enemy in the face; then he would shoot it out like lightning, and when the big teeth were firmly fixed on the other seal’s neck, the other seal might get away if he could, but Sea Catch would not help him. Who acts: Catch, other
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 114

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He would put his head on one side, as though he were afraid to look his enemy in the face; then he would shoot it out like lightning, and when the big teeth were firmly fixed on the other seal’s neck, the other seal might get away if he could, but Sea Catch would not help him.

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**Who acts:** Catch, other seal, Sea Catch · **What happens:** put, be, look, shoot out, fix, get away · **To what, where:** head, one side, enemy, face, big teeth, neck

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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, other seal, Sea Catch), 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:pg236:10:114
# text = He would put his head on one side, as though he were afraid to look his enemy in the face; then he would shoot it out like lightning, and when the big teeth were firmly fixed on the other seal’s neck, the other seal might get away if he could, but Sea Catch would not help him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
33	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	39	mark	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
38	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	advcl	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	’s	's	PART	POS	_	43	case	_	_
45	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
50	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
52	away	away	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
53	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
57	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
58	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	_
59	Catch	Catch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
60	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	62	aux	_	_
61	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	62	advmod	_	_
62	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
63	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | would | Catch | Catch's head |  | one side |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme on side=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | Catch |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | Catch *not said here* | Catch's enemy |  | the face |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme enemy=Attribute |
| 4 | **shoot out** | would | Catch | enemy |  |  | then | like lightning | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **fix** | past · passive |  | the big teeth |  | the other seal's neck |  | firmly *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **get away** | might | the other seal |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **help** | would | Sea Catch |  | Seal |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |

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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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