The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 62

“Now,” said the big man (he was an Englishman who had just moved into the bungalow), “don’t frighten him, and we’ll see what he’ll do.”

Who acts: big man, Tikki, Englishman, we · What happens: say, be, move, not frighten, see, 'll · To what, where: Englishman, bungalow, 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 (big man, Tikki, Englishman, we), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 Englishman	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 Englishman	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Englishman	cop
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 Englishman	det
13	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 man	appos
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 moved	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 moved	aux
16	just	just	ADV	_	17 moved	advmod
17	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 Englishman	acl:relcl
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 bungalow	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bungalow	det
20	bungalow	bungalow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 moved	obl
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 Englishman	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 frighten	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 frighten	punct
24	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 frighten	aux
25	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 frighten	advmod
26	frighten	frighten	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 frighten	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 see	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 see	cc
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 see	nsubj
31	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 see	aux
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 frighten	conj
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 ’ll	obj
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 ’ll	nsubj
35	’ll	'll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 see	ccomp
36	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 ’ll	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the big man			now	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a	past	Tikki	a Englishman			tree rules
3	move	past · perfect	a Englishman		the bungalow		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into bungalow=Trajectory
4	not frighten in a quote	infinitive · do-support		Tikki			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
5	see in a quote	future	we				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	'll in a quote	past	Tikki				tree rules
7	do in a quote	infinitive	Tikki not said here				vn act-114-1 «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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