The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 21
“Enter, then, and look,” said Father Wolf stiffly, “but there is no food here.”
Who acts: Father Wolf, food · What happens: look, say, be · To what, where: Enter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father Wolf, food), 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 | _ | 2 Enter | punct |
| 2 | Enter | Enter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 look | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 look | cc |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 then | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 look | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 look | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Wolf | compound |
| 12 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | stiffly | stiffly | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 is | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 is | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 is | cc |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 is | expl |
| 18 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 food | det |
| 20 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 is | nsubj |
| 21 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 is | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 is | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Father Wolf | Enter | then | stiffly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | no food | here; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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