--- title: He met with more adventures than can be told, and narrowly escaped b… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: He met with more adventures than can be told, and narrowly escaped being caught by the Basking Shark, and the Spotted Shark, and the Hammerhead, and he met all the untrustworthy ruffians that loaf up and down the seas, and the heavy polite fish, and the scarlet spotted scallops that are moored in on --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/9/) [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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/) / 9 # The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 9 He met with more adventures than can be told, and narrowly escaped being caught by the Basking Shark, and the Spotted Shark, and the Hammerhead, and he met all the untrustworthy ruffians that loaf up and down the seas, and the heavy polite fish, and the scarlet spotted scallops that are moored in one place for hundreds of years, and grow very proud of it; but he never met Sea Cow, and he never found an island that he could fancy. **Who acts:** Kotick, Basking Shark, Spotted Shark, untrustworthy ruffians, scarlet · **What happens:** meet, tell, escape, catch, spot, loaf up · **To what, where:** heavy polite fish, more adventures, untrustworthy ruffians, scallops, one place, Sea Cow · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kotick, Basking Shark, Spotted Shark, untrustworthy ruffians), 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:pg236:12:9 # text = He met with more adventures than can be told, and narrowly escaped being caught by the Basking Shark, and the Spotted Shark, and the Hammerhead, and he met all the untrustworthy ruffians that loaf up and down the seas, and the heavy polite fish, and the scarlet spotted scallops that are moored in one place for hundreds of years, and grow very proud of it; but he never met Sea Cow, and he never found an island that he could fancy. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 adventures adventure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 than than SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 narrowly narrowly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 escaped escape VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 ccomp _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 Basking Basking PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 Shark Shark PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 Spotted spot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 24 Shark Shark PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Hammerhead Hammerhead PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 33 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 36 det:predet _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 untrustworthy untrustworthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 ruffians ruffian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 37 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 38 loaf loaf VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 39 up up ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 down down ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 seas sea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 47 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 48 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 scarlet scarlet NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nsubj _ _ 54 spotted spot VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 55 scallops scallop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 obj _ _ 56 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 58 nsubj _ _ 57 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 58 aux:pass _ _ 58 moored moor VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 55 acl:relcl _ _ 59 in in ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 60 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 61 nummod _ _ 61 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obl _ _ 62 for for ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 63 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 61 nmod _ _ 64 of of ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 65 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 63 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 66 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 67 and and CCONJ CC _ 68 cc _ _ 68 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 parataxis _ _ 69 very very ADV RB _ 70 advmod _ _ 70 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 68 xcomp _ _ 71 of of ADP IN _ 72 case _ _ 72 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 70 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 73 ; ; PUNCT : _ 77 punct _ _ 74 but but CCONJ CC _ 77 cc _ _ 75 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 77 nsubj _ _ 76 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 77 advmod _ _ 77 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 78 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 79 compound _ _ 79 Cow Cow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 77 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 80 , , PUNCT , _ 84 punct _ _ 81 and and CCONJ CC _ 84 cc _ _ 82 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 84 nsubj _ _ 83 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 84 advmod _ _ 84 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 77 conj _ _ 85 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 86 det _ _ 86 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 84 obj _ _ 87 that that SCONJ IN _ 90 mark _ _ 88 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 90 nsubj _ _ 89 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 90 aux _ _ 90 fancy fancy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 86 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 91 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | past | Kotick | the heavy polite fish | | | | with more adventures | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with adventure=Co-Agent | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can · passive | | more adventures *not said here* | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» | | 3 | **escape** | past | Kotick *not said here* | | | | | narrowly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **catch** | gerund · passive | the Basking Shark | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **spot** | participle | | | | | | | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | | 6 | **meet** | past | the Spotted Shark and the Hammerhead | all untrustworthy ruffians | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruffian=Co-Agent | | 7 | **loaf up** | present | all untrustworthy ruffians | | | | | | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **spot** | past | the scarlet | scallops | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme scallop=Destination | | 9 | **moor** | present · passive | | scallops | | one place for hundreds of years | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in place=Destination | | 10 | **grow** | present | | | | | | proud *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 11 | **not** **meet** | past | Kotick | Sea Cow | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Co-Agent | | 12 | **not** **find** | past | Kotick | a island | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Topic | | 13 | **fancy** | could | Kotick | a island *not said here* | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer island=Stimulus | 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/10/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/)