The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 74
“The fool has had no more sense than to jump at a woodcutter’s campfire, and has burned his feet,” said Father Wolf with a grunt.
Who acts: fool, Father Wolf · What happens: have, jump, burn, say · To what, where: more sense, campfire, feet · 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 (fool, Father Wolf), 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 | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fool | det |
| 3 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | aux |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 burned | advcl |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 sense | det |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 sense | amod |
| 8 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 jump | mark |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 jump | mark |
| 11 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sense | acl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 campfire | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 woodcutter | det |
| 14 | woodcutter | woodcutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 campfire | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 woodcutter | case |
| 16 | campfire | campfire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 jump | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 burned | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 burned | cc |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 burned | aux |
| 20 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 said | ccomp |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 feet | nmod:poss |
| 22 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 burned | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 burned | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 burned | punct |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Wolf | compound |
| 27 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 said | nsubj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 grunt | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 grunt | det |
| 30 | grunt | grunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present · perfect | the fool | no more sense | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient | ||||
| 2 | jump in a quote | to-infinitive | the fool not said here | no more sense not said here | a woodcutter's campfire | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at campfire=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | burn in a quote | present · perfect | fool's feet | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Father Wolf | with a grunt | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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