The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 61

“Man!” said Father Wolf, showing all his white teeth.

Who acts: Man · What happens: say, show · To what, where: white teeth · 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 (Man), 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 Man	punct
2	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Man	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Man	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Wolf	compound
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 showing	punct
9	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 teeth	det:predet
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 teeth	nmod:poss
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 teeth	amod
13	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 showing	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Man						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	show	gerund	Man not said here	noise's white teeth					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient

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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