The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 76

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

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.

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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dreamed	nsubj:pass
3	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 boy	acl
4	among	among	ADP	_	5 men	case
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trained	obl
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 dreamed	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 dreamed	advmod
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 dreamed	aux
9	dreamed	dream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 skinning	mark
11	skinning	skin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 dreamed	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tiger	det
13	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 foot	nummod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 ten	punct
15	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tiger	compound
16	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 skinning	obj
17	alone	alone	ADV	_	11 skinning	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 knew	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 knew	cc
20	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 knew	nsubj
21	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dreamed	parataxis
22	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 knew	advmod
23	than	than	SCONJ	_	32 fitted	mark
24	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	32 fitted	nsubj:pass
25	else	else	ADV	_	24 anyone	advmod
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 fitted	advmod
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 animal	det
28	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 skin	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 animal	case
30	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fitted	nsubj:pass
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 fitted	aux:pass
32	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 knew	advcl
33	on	on	ADP	_	32 fitted	compound:prt
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 taken	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 taken	cc
36	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	40 taken	advmod
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 taken	nsubj:pass
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 taken	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 taken	aux:pass
40	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 knew	conj
41	off	off	ADP	_	40 taken	compound:prt
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 dreamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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

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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