The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 99

But look here--you seem to have a fondness for talking to your betters--suppose you go to Walrus Islet and talk to Sea Vitch.

Who acts: you, fondness · What happens: look, seem, have, talk, suppose, go · To what, where: fondness, Walrus, Sea · 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 (you, fondness), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 look	cc
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 look	advmod
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 seem	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 seem	nsubj
6	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 look	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 have	mark
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 seem	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fondness	det
10	fondness	fondness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 talking	mark
12	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 fondness	acl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 betters	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 betters	nmod:poss
15	betters	better	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 talking	obl
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 suppose	punct
17	suppose	suppose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 have	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 go	nsubj
19	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 suppose	ccomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 Walrus	case
21	Walrus	Walrus	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
22	Islet	Islet	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Walrus	flat
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 talk	cc
24	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 go	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 Sea	case
26	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 talk	obl
27	Vitch	Vitch	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Sea	flat
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here			here		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	seem	present	you					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	have	to-infinitive	you not said here	a fondness				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fondness=Patient
4	talk	gerund	a fondness not said here				to your betters	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to better=Co-Agent
5	suppose	infinitive	you not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	go	present	you			Walrus		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to walrus=Initial_Location
7	talk	infinitive	you not said here		Sea			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to sea=Co-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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