The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 89
“Teddy’s safer with that little beast than if he had a bloodhound to watch him.
Who acts: Tikki · What happens: have, watch · To what, where: bloodhound, Tikki
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 (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 | _ | 4 safer | punct |
| 2 | Teddy | teddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 safer | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Teddy | case |
| 4 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 beast | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 beast | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 beast | amod |
| 8 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 safer | obl |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 had | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 had | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 safer | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bloodhound | det |
| 14 | bloodhound | bloodhound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 watch | mark |
| 16 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 bloodhound | acl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 watch | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 safer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | Tikki | a bloodhound | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bloodhound=Patient | ||||
| 2 | watch in a quote | to-infinitive | Tikki not said here | Tikki | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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