The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 136

But his wife was a sensible bird, and she knew that cobra’s eggs meant young cobras later on.

Who acts: wife, eggs · What happens: be, know, mean · To what, where: sensible bird · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wife, eggs), 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 bird	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bird	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bird	det
6	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knew	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 knew	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 knew	nsubj
11	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	conj
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 cobra	det
13	cobra	cobra	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eggs	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 cobra	case
15	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 meant	nsubj
16	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 knew	ccomp
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cobras	amod
18	cobras	cobra	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 later	obl:unmarked
19	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 on	advmod
20	on	on	ADV	_	16 meant	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bird	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	Darzee's wife	a sensible bird	tree rules
2	know	past	wife		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	mean	past	that cobra's eggs		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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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