--- title: Sick and giddy as Mowgli was he could not help enjoying the wild rus… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: Sick and giddy as Mowgli was he could not help enjoying the wild rush, though the glimpses of earth far down below frightened him, and the terrible check and jerk at the end of the swing over nothing but empty air brought his heart between his teeth. Who acts: Sick, glimpses, empty air. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sick, glimpses, empty air), 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:pg236:4:136 # text = Sick and giddy as Mowgli was he could not help enjoying the wild rush, though the glimpses of earth far down below frightened him, and the terrible check and jerk at the end of the swing over nothing but empty air brought his heart between his teeth. 1 Sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 giddy giddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Mowgli Mowgli PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 enjoying enjoy VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 xcomp _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 rush rush NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 though though SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 glimpses glimpse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 22 down down ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 below below ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 frightened frighten VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 check check NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 parataxis _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 jerk jerk NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 swing swing NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 over over ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 30 nmod _ _ 41 but but CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 44 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 47 between between ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | could · past | Sick | | | | | help *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **enjoy** *not said to happen* | gerund | Sick *not said here* | the wild rush | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rush=Stimulus | | 3 | **frighten** | past | the glimpses of earth | Mowgli | | | | below, down *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | | 4 | **bring** | past | empty air | Mowgli's heart | | | | between Mowgli's teeth | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | | 5 | **glimpse** | | | earth | | | | | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=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 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/4/135/) - next →: [sentence 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/4/137/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/4/)