The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 48
“If you do happen to have an extra joint in your front flipper you needn’t show off so.
Who acts: you, front flipper · What happens: happen, have, need, not show off · To what, where: extra joint, front flipper
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, front flipper), 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 | _ | 5 happen | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 happen | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 happen | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | aux |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 happen | xcomp |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 joint | det |
| 9 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 joint | amod |
| 10 | joint | joint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 flipper | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 flipper | nmod:poss |
| 13 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 flipper | amod |
| 14 | flipper | flipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 need | nsubj |
| 16 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 flipper | acl:relcl |
| 17 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 show | advmod |
| 18 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 need | xcomp |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 show | compound:prt |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 show | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen in a quote | present · do-support | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | a extra joint | your front flipper | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joint=Patient | |||
| 3 | need in a quote | present | you | your front flipper not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not show off not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | your front flipper not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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