The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 58

“No,” said his mother, “let’s take him in and dry him.

Who acts: mother, ’s · What happens: say, let, take, dry · To what, where: ’s, Tikki · 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 (mother, ’s), 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 said	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
10	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
11	’s	we	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 let	obj
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 take	obj
14	in	in	ADV	_	12 take	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dry	cc
16	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 take	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 dry	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Tikki's mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let in a quote	infinitive		’s		tree rules
3	take in a quote	infinitive	’s not said here		Tikki	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
4	dry in a quote	infinitive	’s not said here	Tikki		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result

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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