The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 95
“Well done for a yearling!” said the Sea Lion, who could appreciate good swimming.
Who acts: Sea Lion · What happens: do, say, appreciate · To what, where: good swimming · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sea Lion), 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 | _ | 3 done | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 done | advmod |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 yearling | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 yearling | det |
| 6 | yearling | yearling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 done | obl |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Lion | det |
| 11 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Lion | compound |
| 12 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 appreciate | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 appreciate | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 appreciate | aux |
| 16 | appreciate | appreciate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Lion | acl:relcl |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 swimming | amod |
| 18 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 appreciate | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | participle | for a yearling; well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the Sea Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | appreciate | could | the Sea Lion | good swimming | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer swimming=Stimulus |
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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