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title: Imagine the feelings of Sunol if a car-horse called her a “skate,” a… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Imagine the feelings of Sunol if a car-horse called her a “skate,” and you can imagine how the Australian horse felt. Who acts: you, car horse. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 156

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Imagine the feelings of Sunol if a car-horse called her a “skate,” and you can imagine how the Australian horse felt.

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**Who acts:** you, car horse · **What happens:** imagine, call · **To what, where:** feelings, Sunol, Australian horse felt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, car horse), 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:pg236:19:156
# text = Imagine the feelings of Sunol if a car-horse called her a “skate,” and you can imagine how the Australian horse felt.
1	Imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Sunol	Sunol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	skate	skate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	felt	felt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the feelings of Sunol |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot feeling=Theme |
| 2 | **call** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a car horse |  | Sunol |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 3 | **imagine** | can | you | the Australian horse felt |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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