The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 134

Darzee was a feather-brained little fellow who could never hold more than one idea at a time in his head.

Who acts: Darzee, brained little fellow · What happens: brain, be, not hold · To what, where: brained little fellow, one idea, head

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darzee, brained little fellow), 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	Darzee	Darzee	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 fellow	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fellow	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fellow	det
4	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brained	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 feather	punct
6	brained	brain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 fellow	amod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fellow	amod
8	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 hold	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hold	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 hold	advmod
12	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 fellow	acl:relcl
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	15 one	advmod
14	than	than	ADP	_	13 more	fixed
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 idea	nummod
16	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hold	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 time	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 time	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hold	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 head	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 head	nmod:poss
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hold	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	brain	participle					vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	Darzee	a brained little fellow			tree rules
3	not hold	could	a brained little fellow	one idea	Darzee's head	time	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent idea=Theme in head=Location

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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