The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 59

“Generally I have to go in among a lot of yelling, hairy men with knives--long shiny knives, worse than the farrier’s knives--and I have to take care that Dick’s boot is just touching the next man’s boot without crushing it.

Who acts: troop horse, that · What happens: have, go in, take, touch, crush · To what, where: lot, care, boot

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 (troop horse, that), 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	_	4 have	punct
2	Generally	generally	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	among	among	ADP	_	10 lot	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lot	det
10	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 yelling	case
12	yelling	yelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lot	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 men	punct
14	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 men	amod
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lot	nmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 knives	case
17	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 men	nmod
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 knives	punct
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 knives	amod
20	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 knives	amod
21	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 knives	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 worse	punct
23	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 men	conj
24	than	than	ADP	_	28 knives	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 farrier	det
26	farrier	farrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 knives	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 farrier	case
28	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 worse	obl
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 have	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 have	cc
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 have	nsubj
32	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 take	mark
34	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 have	xcomp
35	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 take	obj
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 touching	nsubj
37	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 boot	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 Dick	case
39	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 touching	nsubj
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 touching	aux
41	just	just	ADV	_	42 touching	advmod
42	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 take	advcl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 man	det
44	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 man	amod
45	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 boot	nmod:poss
46	’s	's	PART	_	45 man	case
47	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 touching	obj
48	without	without	SCONJ	_	49 crushing	mark
49	crushing	crush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 take	advcl
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 crushing	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	the troop horse = horse			generally property	tree rules
2	go in in a quote	to-infinitive	the troop horse = horse not said here		a lot of yelling hairy men with knives and long shiny knives		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among lot=Location
3	have in a quote	present	the troop horse = horse				tree rules
4	take in a quote	to-infinitive	the troop horse = horse not said here	care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
5	touch in a quote	present · progressive	that	the next man's boot			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme boot=Co-Theme
6	crush in a quote	gerund	the troop horse = horse not said here	boot			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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