The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 79

“There are more things to find out about in this house,” he said to himself, “than all my family could find out in all their lives.

Who acts: more things, Tikki · What happens: be, find out, say · To what, where: house, Tikki, lives · 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 (more things, Tikki), 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	_	3 are	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 are	expl
3	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 are	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 things	acl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 find	compound:prt
9	about	about	ADV	_	12 house	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 are	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 are	nsubj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 himself	case
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 said	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 find	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 find	punct
21	than	than	ADP	_	24 family	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 family	det:predet
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 family	nmod:poss
24	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 find	obl
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 find	aux
26	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	conj
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 find	compound:prt
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 lives	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 lives	det:predet
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 lives	nmod:poss
31	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 find	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	does in a quote	present	more things		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find out in a quote	to-infinitive	more things not said here		this house		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Tikki	Tikki			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
4	find out in a quote	could	Tikki not said here		things's lives	than my family	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: 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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