The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 92

How naked, and--how bold!” said Mother Wolf softly.

Who acts: Mother Wolf · What happens: say · 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 (Mother 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 naked	advmod
2	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 naked	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bold	cc
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 bold	punct
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 bold	advmod
7	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 naked	conj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 bold	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 bold	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Wolf	compound
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	softly	softly	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Mother Wolf					softly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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