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title: The second squadron of the Lancers shot by, and there was the troop-… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The second squadron of the Lancers shot by, and there was the troop-horse, with his tail like spun silk, his head pulled into his breast, one ear forward and one back, setting the time for all his squadron, his legs going as smoothly as waltz music. Who acts: second squadron, head, legs. A sentence 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 146

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The second squadron of the Lancers shot by, and there was the troop-horse, with his tail like spun silk, his head pulled into his breast, one ear forward and one back, setting the time for all his squadron, his legs going as smoothly as waltz music.

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**Who acts:** second squadron, head, legs · **What happens:** shoot, be, spin, pull, set, go · **To what, where:** troop horse, one ear, breast

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second squadron, head, legs), 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:pg236:20:146
# text = The second squadron of the Lancers shot by, and there was the troop-horse, with his tail like spun silk, his head pulled into his breast, one ear forward and one back, setting the time for all his squadron, his legs going as smoothly as waltz music.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	squadron	squadron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Lancers	lancer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	obl	_	_
37	back	back	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	45	det:predet	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	squadron	squadron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	appos	_	_
49	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	48	acl	_	_
50	as	as	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	smoothly	smoothly	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
52	as	as	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	waltz	waltz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot** | past | the second squadron of the Lancers |  |  |  |  | with squadron's tail like spun silk | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tail=Instrument |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the troop horse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **spin** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pull** | past | squadron's head | one ear |  | squadron's breast |  | one *obl*; forward *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **set** | gerund | squadron's head *not said here* |  |  |  | time | for squadron's squadron | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for squadron=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **go** | gerund | squadron's legs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | smoothly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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