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title: If you haven’t room to swing round, rear up a little and come round… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If you haven’t room to swing round, rear up a little and come round on your hind legs. Who acts: you. 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 52

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If you haven’t room to swing round, rear up a little and come round on your hind legs.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** n't, swing, rear up, come round · **To what, where:** room, little, hind legs

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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), 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:pg236:19:52
# text = If you haven’t room to swing round, rear up a little and come round on your hind legs.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n’t	n't	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	swing	swing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	round	round	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	rear	rear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	round	round	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	hind	hind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **n't** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | you | room |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **swing** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | room *not said here* |  |  |  | round *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **rear up** | imperative | you *not said here* | a little |  |  |  |  | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come round** | present | you *not said here* |  |  | your hind legs |  | round *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=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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