The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 91

But Teddy’s mother wouldn’t think of anything so awful.

Who acts: mother · What happens: not think

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 think	cc
2	Teddy	Teddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mother	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Teddy	case
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 think	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 think	aux
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 think	advmod
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 anything	case
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 think	obl
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 awful	advmod
11	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 think	ccomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	would	Teddy's mother					of anything	vn focus-87.1-1 «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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/13/91/