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title: A boy trained among men would never have dreamed of skinning a ten-f… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy trained among men would never have dreamed of skinning a ten-foot tiger alone, but Mowgli knew better than anyone else how an animal’s skin is fitted on, and how it can be taken off. Who acts: Mowgli. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9, with its depende
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 76

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A boy trained among men would never have dreamed of skinning a ten-foot tiger alone, but Mowgli knew better than anyone else how an animal’s skin is fitted on, and how it can be taken off.

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**Who acts:** Mowgli · **What happens:** train, not dream, skin, know, fit on, take off · **To what, where:** boy, foot tiger, anyone, it

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mowgli), 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:pg236:9:76
# text = A boy trained among men would never have dreamed of skinning a ten-foot tiger alone, but Mowgli knew better than anyone else how an animal’s skin is fitted on, and how it can be taken off.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	among	among	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux	_	_
9	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	skinning	skin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
17	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
22	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
23	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
24	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	else	else	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’s	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	fitted	fit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
36	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
41	off	off	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **train** | participle |  | a boy *not said here* |  |  |  | among men | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **dream** | would · perfect · passive |  | a boy |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **skin** | gerund |  | a foot tiger |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tiger=Patient |
| 4 | **know** | past | Mowgli |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **fit on** | present · passive |  | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **take off** | can · passive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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