The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 105

“They teach us in riding school to lie down and let our masters fire across us, but Dick Cunliffe is the only man I’d trust to do that.

Who acts: crupper, Dick, trust, our · What happens: teach, lie down, let, be, have, do · To what, where: us, riding school, masters fire, only man, trust, that

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crupper, Dick, trust, our), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 teach	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 teach	nsubj
3	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 teach	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 school	case
6	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 school	compound
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 teach	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 lie	mark
9	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 teach	xcomp
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 lie	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 let	cc
12	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 lie	conj
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 fire	nmod:poss
14	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fire	compound
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 let	obj
16	across	across	ADP	_	17 us	case
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 let	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 man	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 man	cc
20	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 man	nsubj
21	Cunliffe	Cunliffe	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Dick	flat
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 man	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 man	det
24	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 man	amod
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 teach	conj
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 ’d	nsubj
27	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 man	acl:relcl
28	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ’d	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 do	mark
30	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 ’d	xcomp
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 do	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 teach	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other in a quote	present	crupper		us	riding school		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
2	lie down in a quote	to-infinitive	crupper not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	let in a quote	infinitive	crupper not said here	our masters fire			across us	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
4	is a in a quote	present	Dick	the only man				tree rules
5	have in a quote	past	my crupper and breastplate = crupper	trust				tree rules
6	do in a quote	to-infinitive	trust not said here	that				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
7	fire in a quote		our					nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent

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.

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