The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 30
Now, Tabaqui knew as well as anyone else that there is nothing so unlucky as to compliment children to their faces.
Who acts: Tabaqui, nothing · What happens: know, be, compliment · To what, where: anyone, children
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 (Tabaqui, nothing), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 knew | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | Tabaqui | Tabaqui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 4 knew | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 as | fixed |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 as | fixed |
| 8 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 knew | obj |
| 9 | else | else | ADV | _ | 8 anyone | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 is | mark |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 is | expl |
| 12 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 is | nsubj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 unlucky | advmod |
| 15 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 nothing | amod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 compliment | mark |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 compliment | mark |
| 18 | compliment | compliment | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 unlucky | advcl |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 compliment | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 faces | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 faces | nmod:poss |
| 22 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 compliment | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Tabaqui | anyone | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | be | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | compliment | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | children | to children's faces | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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