The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 71
“Good gracious,” said Teddy’s mother, “and that’s a wild creature!
Who acts: mother, that · What happens: say, be · To what, where: wild creature · 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, that), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gracious | amod |
| 3 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | parataxis |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 gracious | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gracious | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Teddy | Teddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Teddy | case |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 creature | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 creature | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 creature | cc |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 creature | nsubj |
| 14 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 creature | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 creature | det |
| 16 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 creature | amod |
| 17 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mother | nmod |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | Teddy's mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | that | a wild creature | tree rules |
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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