--- title: They both reared up facing each other, and I was expecting a furious… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: They both reared up facing each other, and I was expecting a furious fight, when a gurgly, rumbly voice, called out of the darkness to the right--“Children, what are you fighting about there? Who acts: legs, I, rumbly voice, you. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/161/) [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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/) / 161 # The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 161 They both reared up facing each other, and I was expecting a furious fight, when a gurgly, rumbly voice, called out of the darkness to the right--“Children, what are you fighting about there? **Who acts:** legs, I, rumbly voice, you · **What happens:** rear up, face, expect, call out, fight · **To what, where:** each, furious fight, darkness, Children · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (legs, I, rumbly voice, you), 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:pg236:19:161 # text = They both reared up facing each other, and I was expecting a furious fight, when a gurgly, rumbly voice, called out of the darkness to the right--“Children, what are you fighting about there? 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 both both ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 reared rear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 facing face VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 6 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 5 obj _ _ 7 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 expecting expect VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 furious furious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 gurgly gurgly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 rumbly rumbly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 25 out out ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 -- -- PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 “ " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 39 obj _ _ 37 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 fighting fight VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 parataxis _ _ 40 about about ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rear up** | past | legs *= leg* | | | | | both *property* | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **face** | gerund | legs *= leg* *not said here* | each | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme each=Destination | | 3 | **expect** | past · progressive | I | a furious fight | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Theme | | 4 | **call out** *speech: ask* | participle | a rumbly voice *not said here* | the darkness to the right | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent darkness=Recipient | | 5 | **fight** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you | Children | | there | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Co-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 160](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/160/) - next →: [sentence 162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/162/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/)