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title: It looks very funny, but it is so perfectly balanced a gait that you… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It looks very funny, but it is so perfectly balanced a gait that you can fly off from it at any angle you please, and in dealing with snakes this is an advantage. Who acts: motion, gait, this. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 6

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It looks very funny, but it is so perfectly balanced a gait that you can fly off from it at any angle you please, and in dealing with snakes this is an advantage.

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**Who acts:** motion, gait, this · **What happens:** look, be, fly off, deal · **To what, where:** motion, advantage

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (motion, gait, this), 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:pg236:14:6
# text = It looks very funny, but it is so perfectly balanced a gait that you can fly off from it at any angle you please, and in dealing with snakes this is an advantage.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	balanced	balance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	gait	gait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	angle	angle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	dealing	deal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
32	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | motion |  |  |  |  | funny *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | motion |  |  |  |  | balance, perfectly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fly off** | can | a gait |  |  | motion |  | at any angle | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at angle=Location |
| 4 | **deal** | gerund | motion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with snakes | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with snake=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | this | a advantage |  |  |  |  | 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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