The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 21
Teddy’s mother might just as well have petted Teddy for playing in the dust.
Who acts: mother · What happens: pet, play · To what, where: Teddy, dust
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 (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 | Teddy | Teddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Teddy | case |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 petted | nsubj |
| 4 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 petted | aux |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 petted | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 9 petted | cc |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 as | fixed |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 petted | aux |
| 9 | petted | pet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | Teddy | Teddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 petted | obj |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 playing | mark |
| 12 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 petted | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 dust | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dust | det |
| 15 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 playing | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 petted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pet | might · perfect | Teddy's mother | Teddy | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teddy=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | play | gerund | Teddy's mother not said here | the dust | vn performance-26.7-1 «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.
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