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title: May I be--skinned!” said Sea Vitch, and they all looked at Kotick as… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: May I be--skinned!” said Sea Vitch, and they all looked at Kotick as you can fancy a club full of drowsy old gentlemen would look at a little boy. Who acts: Sea Vitch, gulls, you, club. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 114

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May I be--skinned!” said Sea Vitch, and they all looked at Kotick as you can fancy a club full of drowsy old gentlemen would look at a little boy.

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**Who acts:** Sea Vitch, gulls, you, club · **What happens:** skin, say, look, fancy · **To what, where:** I, Kotick · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sea Vitch, gulls, you, club), 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:pg236:11:114
# text = May I be--skinned!” said Sea Vitch, and they all looked at Kotick as you can fancy a club full of drowsy old gentlemen would look at a little boy.
1	May	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	skinned	skin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Vitch	Vitch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	advmod	_	_
15	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	fancy	fancy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
24	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	drowsy	drowsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	parataxis	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skin** | may · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Sea Vitch |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **look** *in a quote* | past | gulls *= gull* |  |  | Kotick |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fancy** *in a quote* | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **look** *in a quote* | would | a club |  |  |  |  | at a little boy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at boy=Theme |

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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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