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title: Now you’re angry, but--never mind, _Brother, thy tail hangs down beh… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now you’re angry, but--never mind, _Brother, thy tail hangs down behind! Who acts: you, tail. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 115

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Now you’re angry, but--never mind, \_Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!

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**Who acts:** you, tail · **What happens:** be, not mind, hang · **To what, where:** Brother

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, tail), 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:pg236:7:115
# text = Now you’re angry, but--never mind, _Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’re	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	hangs	hang	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | you |  |  |  | now | angry *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **mind** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Brother |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **hang** | present | thy tail |  |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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