--- title: The Jungle Book, part 20 — The Jungle Book · full text with trees description: The Jungle Book, part 20, «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: “Ah!” said the troop horse. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/) [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 20 # The Jungle Book, part 20 The Jungle Book, part 20 of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling: the whole text, 198 sentences and 2636 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 5 of them are in the tales treebank and were checked by a teacher model. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/page/2/) - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/1/) — “Ah!” said the troop horse. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/2/) — “That explains it. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/3/) — I can trust Dick.” - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/4/) — “You could put a whole regiment of Dicks on my back without making me feel any better. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/5/) — I know just enough to be uncomfortable, and not enough to go on in spite of it.” - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/6/) — “We do not understand,” said the bullocks. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/7/) — “I know you don’t. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/8/) — I’m not talking to you. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/9/) — You don’t know what blood is.” - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/10/) — “We do,” said the bullocks. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/11/) — “It is red stuff that soaks into the ground and smells.” - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/12/) — The troop-horse gave a kick and a bound and a snort. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/13/) — “Don’t talk of it,” he said. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/14/) — “I can smell it now, just thinking of it. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/15/) — It makes me want to run--when I haven’t Dick on my back.” - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/16/) — “But it is not here,” said the camel and the bullocks. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/17/) — “Why are you so stupid?” - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/18/) — “It’s vile stuff,” said Billy. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/19/) — “I don’t want to run, but I don’t want to talk about it.” - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/20/) — “There you are!” said Two Tails, waving his tail to explain. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/21/) — “Surely. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/22/) — Yes, we have been here all night,” said the bullocks. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/23/) — Two Tails stamped his foot till the iron ring on it jingled. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/24/) — “Oh, I’m not talking to you. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/25/) — You can’t see inside your heads.” - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/26/) — “No. We see out of our four eyes,” said the bullocks. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/27/) — “We see straight in front of us.” - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/28/) — “If I could do that and nothing else, you wouldn’t be needed to pull the big guns at all. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/29/) — If I was like my captain--he can see things inside his head before the firing begins, and he shakes all over, but he knows too much to run away--if I was like him I could pull the guns. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/30/) — But if I were as wise as all that I should never be here. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/31/) — I should be a king in the forest, as I used to be, sleeping half the day and bathing when I liked. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/32/) — I haven’t had a good bath for a month.” - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/33/) — “That’s all very fine,” said Billy. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/34/) — “But giving a thing a long name doesn’t make it any better.” - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/35/) — “H’sh!” said the troop horse. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/36/) — “I think I understand what Two Tails means.” - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/37/) — “You’ll understand better in a minute,” said Two Tails angrily. - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/38/) — “Now you just explain to me why you don’t like this!” - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/39/) — He began trumpeting furiously at the top of his trumpet. - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/40/) — “Stop that!” said Billy and the troop horse together, and I could hear them stamp and shiver. - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/41/) — An elephant’s trumpeting is always nasty, especially on a dark night. - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/42/) — “I shan’t stop,” said Two Tails. - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/43/) — “Won’t you explain that, please? - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/44/) — Hhrrmph! - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/45/) — Rrrt! - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/46/) — Rrrmph! - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/47/) — Rrrhha!” - [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/48/) — Then he stopped suddenly, and I heard a little whimper in the dark, and knew that Vixen had found me at last. - [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/49/) — She knew as well as I did that if there is one thing in the world the elephant is more afraid of than another it is a little barking dog. - [50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/50/) — So she stopped to bully Two Tails in his pickets, and yapped round his big feet. - [51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/51/) — Two Tails shuffled and squeaked. - [52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/52/) — “Go away, little dog!” he said. - [53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/53/) — “Don’t snuff at my ankles, or I’ll kick at you. — checked by a teacher - [54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/54/) — Good little dog--nice little doggie, then! - [55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/55/) — Go home, you yelping little beast! - [56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/56/) — Oh, why doesn’t someone take her away? - [57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/57/) — She’ll bite me in a minute.” - [58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/58/) — “Seems to me,” said Billy to the troop horse, “that our friend Two Tails is afraid of most things. - [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/59/) — Now, if I had a full meal for every dog I’ve kicked across the parade-ground I should be as fat as Two Tails nearly.” - [60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/60/) — I whistled, and Vixen ran up to me, muddy all over, and licked my nose, and told me a long tale about hunting for me all through the camp. - [61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/61/) — I never let her know that I understood beast talk, or she would have taken all sorts of liberties. - [62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/62/) — So I buttoned her into the breast of my overcoat, and Two Tails shuffled and stamped and growled to himself. - [63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/63/) — “Extraordinary! - [64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/64/) — Most extraordinary!” he said. - [65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/65/) — “It runs in our family. - [66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/66/) — Now, where has that nasty little beast gone to?” - [67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/67/) — I heard him feeling about with his trunk. - [68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/68/) — “We all seem to be affected in various ways,” he went on, blowing his nose. - [69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/69/) — “Now, you gentlemen were alarmed, I believe, when I trumpeted.” - [70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/70/) — “Not alarmed, exactly,” said the troop-horse, “but it made me feel as though I had hornets where my saddle ought to be. - [71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/71/) — Don’t begin again.” - [72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/72/) — “I’m frightened of a little dog, and the camel here is frightened by bad dreams in the night.” - [73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/73/) — “It is very lucky for us that we haven’t all got to fight in the same way,” said the troop-horse. - [74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/74/) — “What I want to know,” said the young mule, who had been quiet for a long time--“what I want to know is, why we have to fight at all.” - [75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/75/) — “Because we’re told to,” said the troop-horse, with a snort of contempt. - [76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/76/) — “Orders,” said Billy the mule, and his teeth snapped. - [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/77/) — “Hukm hai!” - [78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/78/) — (It is an order!), said the camel with a gurgle, and Two Tails and the bullocks repeated, “Hukm hai!” - [79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/79/) — “Yes, but who gives the orders?” said the recruit-mule. - [80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/80/) — “The man who walks at your head--Or sits on your back--Or holds the nose rope--Or twists your tail,” said Billy and the troop-horse and the camel and the bullocks one after the other. - [81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/81/) — “But who gives them the orders?” - [82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/82/) — “Now you want to know too much, young un,” said Billy, “and that is one way of getting kicked. - [83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/83/) — All you have to do is to obey the man at your head and ask no questions.” - [84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/84/) — “He’s quite right,” said Two Tails. - [85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/85/) — “I can’t always obey, because I’m betwixt and between. - [86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/86/) — But Billy’s right. - [87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/87/) — Obey the man next to you who gives the order, or you’ll stop all the battery, besides getting a thrashing.” - [88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/88/) — The gun-bullocks got up to go. - [89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/89/) — “Morning is coming,” they said. - [90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/90/) — “We will go back to our lines. - [91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/91/) — It is true that we only see out of our eyes, and we are not very clever. - [92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/92/) — But still, we are the only people to-night who have not been afraid. - [93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/93/) — Good-night, you brave people.” - [94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/94/) — Nobody answered, and the troop-horse said, to change the conversation, “Where’s that little dog? - [95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/95/) — A dog means a man somewhere about.” - [96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/96/) — “Here I am,” yapped Vixen, “under the gun tail with my man. - [97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/97/) — You big, blundering beast of a camel you, you upset our tent. - [98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/98/) — My man’s very angry.” - [99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/99/) — “Phew!” said the bullocks. - [100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/100/) — “He must be white!” **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/page/2/) - ← previous: [The Jungle Book, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/) - next →: [The Jungle Book, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/21/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/)