The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 81

No one but a sea cow or a seal would have dreamed of there being such a place, and when he looked back at the cliffs even Kotick could hardly believe that he had been under them.

Who acts: sea, Kotick · What happens: dream, be, look back, believe · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sea, Kotick), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dreamed	nsubj:pass
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 cow	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cow	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cow	compound
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 one	conj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 seal	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 seal	det
9	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cow	conj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 dreamed	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 dreamed	aux
12	dreamed	dream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	of	of	ADP	_	18 place	case
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 place	advmod
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 place	cop
16	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	18 place	det:predet
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 place	det
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dreamed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 looked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 looked	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 looked	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 looked	nsubj
23	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dreamed	conj
24	back	back	ADV	_	23 looked	advmod
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 cliffs	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cliffs	det
27	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 looked	obl
28	even	even	ADV	_	32 believe	advmod
29	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 believe	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 believe	aux
31	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	32 believe	advmod
32	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 looked	advcl
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 them	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 them	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 them	aux
36	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 them	cop
37	under	under	ADP	_	38 them	case
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 believe	ccomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 dreamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dream	would · perfect · passive		no one but a sea cow or a seal			vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	is	gerund			there	of such place	tree rules
3	look back	past	sea			at the cliffs	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cliff=Theme
4	believe	could	Kotick			hardly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past · perfect	sea			under cliffs = cliff	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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