---
title: He will scorch in the sun. What harm can a naked frog do us? — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He will scorch in the sun. What harm can a naked frog do us? Who acts: clamor, naked frog. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/2/35/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/2/) / 35

# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 35

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He will scorch in the sun. What harm can a naked frog do us?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** clamor, naked frog · **What happens:** scorch, do · **To what, where:** sun., us

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clamor, naked frog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg236:2:35
# text = He will scorch in the sun. What harm can a naked frog do us?
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	scorch	scorch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	8	det	_	_
8	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scorch** | future | clamor |  |  | the sun.  what harm |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | can | a naked frog |  | us |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Eventuality |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/2/34/)
- next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/2/36/)
- ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/2/)