The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 155
Are bad for baby seals, dear rat, As bad as bad can be; But splash and grow strong, And you can’t be wrong.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, splash, grow, not be
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 (you), 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 | 2 bad | cop |
| 2 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 seals | case |
| 4 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seals | compound |
| 5 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bad | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rat | punct |
| 7 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rat | amod |
| 8 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seals | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bad | punct |
| 10 | As | as | ADV | _ | 11 bad | advmod |
| 11 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rat | conj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 bad | case |
| 13 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bad | obl |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 be | aux |
| 15 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bad | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 splash | punct |
| 17 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 splash | cc |
| 18 | splash | splash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 bad | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 grow | cc |
| 20 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 splash | conj |
| 21 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 grow | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wrong | punct |
| 23 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 wrong | cc |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 wrong | nsubj |
| 25 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 wrong | aux |
| 26 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 wrong | advmod |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 wrong | cop |
| 28 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bad | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | for baby seals dear rat; bad property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | can | can | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | splash | infinitive | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | grow | infinitive | strong property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not is | can | you | wrong property | tree rules |
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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