The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 135

When a snake misses its stroke, it never says anything or gives any sign of what it means to do next.

Who acts: snake, grass · What happens: miss, not say, give, mean, do, stroke · To what, where: stroke, anything, sign · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snake, grass), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 misses	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 snake	det
3	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 misses	nsubj
4	misses	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 says	advcl
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 stroke	nmod:poss
6	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 misses	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 misses	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 says	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 says	advmod
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 says	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 gives	cc
13	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 says	conj
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 sign	det
15	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gives	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 what	case
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 sign	nmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 means	nsubj
19	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 what	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 do	mark
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 means	xcomp
22	next	next	ADV	_	21 do	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	miss	present	a snake	grass's stroke		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stroke=Stimulus
2	not say speech: assert	present	grass	anything		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
3	give	present	grass not said here	any sign		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme
4	mean	present	grass			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	grass not said here		next property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	stroke		grass			nom stroke «act transitive»: poss=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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