--- title: One day, however, as he was lying half asleep in the warm water some… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: One day, however, as he was lying half asleep in the warm water somewhere off the Island of Juan Fernandez, he felt faint and lazy all over, just as human people do when the spring is in their legs, and he remembered the good firm beaches of Novastoshnah seven thousand miles away, the games his comp --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/11/24/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jungle Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/) / [The Jungle Book, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/11/) / 24 # The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 24 One day, however, as he was lying half asleep in the warm water somewhere off the Island of Juan Fernandez, he felt faint and lazy all over, just as human people do when the spring is in their legs, and he remembered the good firm beaches of Novastoshnah seven thousand miles away, the games his companions played, the smell of the seaweed, the seal roar, and the fighting. **Who acts:** Kotick, human people, spring, companions, seaweed · **What happens:** lie, feel, do, be, remember, play · **To what, where:** warm water, legs, good firm beaches, games This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kotick, human people, spring, companions), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg236:11:24 # text = One day, however, as he was lying half asleep in the warm water somewhere off the Island of Juan Fernandez, he felt faint and lazy all over, just as human people do when the spring is in their legs, and he remembered the good firm beaches of Novastoshnah seven thousand miles away, the games his companions played, the smell of the seaweed, the seal roar, and the fighting. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 however however ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 10 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 11 advmod _ _ 11 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 16 somewhere somewhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 9 advmod _ _ 17 off off ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Island Island PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 Juan Juan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 Fernandez Fernandez PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 26 faint faint ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 lazy lazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 29 all all ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 over over ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 just just ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 33 as as SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 37 when when SCONJ WRB _ 43 mark _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 remembered remember VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 49 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 50 firm firm NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 51 beaches beach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obj _ _ 52 of of ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 Novastoshnah Novastoshnah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 nmod _ _ 54 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 55 compound _ _ 55 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 56 nummod _ _ 56 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 obl:unmarked _ _ 57 away away ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 63 obl _ _ 61 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 62 nmod:poss _ _ 62 companions companion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 63 nsubj _ _ 63 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 64 , , PUNCT , _ 66 punct _ _ 65 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 66 det _ _ 66 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obj _ _ 67 of of ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 68 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 69 det _ _ 69 seaweed seaweed NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 70 , , PUNCT , _ 73 punct _ _ 71 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 73 det _ _ 72 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 compound _ _ 73 roar roar NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 74 , , PUNCT , _ 77 punct _ _ 75 and and CCONJ CC _ 77 cc _ _ 76 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 77 det _ _ 77 fighting fighting NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 78 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | past · progressive | Kotick | | | the warm water | | off the Island of Juan Fernandez; asleep, somewhere *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location | | 2 | **feel** | past | Kotick | | | | | faint, however, over *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **do** | present | human people | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | the spring | | | people's legs | | | tree rules | | 5 | **remember** | past | Kotick | the good firm beaches of Novastoshnah | | | | away *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent beach=Theme | | 6 | **play** | past | Kotick's companions | the games | | | | the fighting *obl* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Theme | | 7 | **smell** | | the seaweed | | | | | | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/11/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/11/25/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/11/)