The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 6
“The Killer Whale himself could not have cut them up worse.
What happens: not cut up · To what, where: Killer Whale
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: 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 | _ | 9 cut | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Whale | det |
| 3 | Killer | Killer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Whale | compound |
| 4 | Whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 4 Whale | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 cut | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 cut | advmod |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cut | aux |
| 9 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cut | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 cut | compound:prt |
| 12 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 cut | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cut up in a quote | could · perfect · passive | the Killer Whale Whale | bad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary they=Product |
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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