The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 66
“Don’t be frightened, Teddy,” said his father.
Who acts: father · What happens: not frighten, say · 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 (father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg236:1528): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 frightened | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 frightened | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 frightened | aux:pass |
| 5 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Teddy | punct |
| 7 | Teddy | Teddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 frightened | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 frightened | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 frightened | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not frighten in a quote | infinitive · passive · do-support | Teddy vocative | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Tikki's father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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