The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 135

And just because he knew that Nagaina’s children were born in eggs like his own, he didn’t think at first that it was fair to kill them.

Who acts: Darzee · What happens: know, bear, not think, be, kill · To what, where: children, eggs

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), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 knew	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	5 knew	advmod
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 knew	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 born	mark
7	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 children	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Nagaina	case
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 born	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 born	aux:pass
11	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 knew	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 eggs	case
13	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 born	obl
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 own	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 own	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 born	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 think	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 think	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 think	aux
20	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 think	advmod
21	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 knew	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 first	case
23	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 think	obl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 fair	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fair	expl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fair	cop
27	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 think	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 kill	mark
29	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 fair	csubj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 kill	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	Darzee				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	bear	past · passive		Nagaina's children	eggs	like Darzee's own	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	not think speech: other	past · do-support	Darzee				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past				fair property	tree rules
5	kill	to-infinitive		children = child			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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