The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 63
Are there not enough beetles and frogs in the tanks that he must eat Man, and on our ground too!”
Who acts: tanks · What happens: not be, eat · To what, where: enough beetles, tanks, Man
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 (tanks), 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 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 beetles | cop |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 1 Are | expl |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 beetles | advmod |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 beetles | amod |
| 5 | beetles | beetle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 frogs | cc |
| 7 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 beetles | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 tanks | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tanks | det |
| 10 | tanks | tank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 beetles | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 eat | nsubj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 eat | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 eat | aux |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tanks | acl:relcl |
| 15 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 eat | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ground | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ground | cc |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 ground | case |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 ground | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beetles | conj |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 ground | advmod |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 beetles | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beetles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | enough beetles and frogs and our ground | the tanks | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | must | the tanks | Man | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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