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title: Get round with your hind legs under you the instant you feel the rei… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Get round with your hind legs under you the instant you feel the rein on your neck. Who acts: you, instant. 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 51

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Get round with your hind legs under you the instant you feel the rein on your neck.

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**Who acts:** you, instant · **What happens:** get round, feel · **To what, where:** rein, neck

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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, instant), 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:pg236:19:51
# text = Get round with your hind legs under you the instant you feel the rein on your neck.
1	Get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	round	round	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hind	hind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	rein	rein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get round** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with your hind legs; under you; round *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **feel** | present | the instant | the rein |  | your neck |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rein=Theme on neck=Location |

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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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