--- title: The proper thing to do is to climb up a mountain with a well-balance… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: The proper thing to do is to climb up a mountain with a well-balanced saddle, hang on by all four feet and your ears too, and creep and crawl and wriggle along, till you come out hundreds of feet above anyone else on a ledge where there’s just room enough for your hoofs. Who acts: proper thing, you. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/74/) [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/) / 74 # The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 74 The proper thing to do is to climb up a mountain with a well-balanced saddle, hang on by all four feet and your ears too, and creep and crawl and wriggle along, till you come out hundreds of feet above anyone else on a ledge where there’s just room enough for your hoofs. **Who acts:** proper thing, you · **What happens:** do, be, balance, hang on, creep, crawl · **To what, where:** hundreds, anyone 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 (proper thing, 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:pg236:19:74 # text = The proper thing to do is to climb up a mountain with a well-balanced saddle, hang on by all four feet and your ears too, and creep and crawl and wriggle along, till you come out hundreds of feet above anyone else on a ledge where there’s just room enough for your hoofs. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 14 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 balanced balance VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 17 saddle saddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 hang hang VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 20 on on ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 23 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 28 too too ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 creep creep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 crawl crawl VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 wriggle wriggle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 36 along along ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 till till SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 41 out out ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ _ 42 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nmod _ _ 45 above above ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 40 obl _ _ 47 else else ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 48 on on ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 ledge ledge NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ _ 51 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 53 advmod _ _ 52 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 53 expl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 acl:relcl _ _ 54 just just ADV RB _ 55 advmod _ _ 55 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl _ _ 56 enough enough ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 57 for for ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 59 nmod:poss _ _ 59 hoofs hoof NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 60 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | to-infinitive | the proper thing *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | the proper thing | | | | | climb *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **balance** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **hang on** | infinitive | the proper thing *not said here* | | | | | by all four feet and your ears | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by foot=Location | | 5 | **creep** | present | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **crawl** | present | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **wriggle** | present | | | | | | along *property* | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **come out** | present | you | hundreds of feet | | anyone | | | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | 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 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/75/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/)