The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 1
“Little Brother, it is well done,” said a deep voice in the thicket.
Who acts: deep voice · What happens: do, say · To what, where: Little Brother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deep voice), 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 | _ | 8 done | punct |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Brother | amod |
| 3 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 done | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Brother | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 done | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 done | aux:pass |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 done | advmod |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 done | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 done | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 voice | det |
| 13 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 voice | amod |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 thicket | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 thicket | det |
| 17 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 voice | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · passive | Little Brother | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a deep voice | 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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