The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 4

But he is so small that nobody thinks of him, and so he does the more harm to people.

Who acts: snakeling, nobody · What happens: be, think, do · To what, where: more harm

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 (snakeling, nobody), 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	_	5 small	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 small	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 small	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 small	advmod
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 thinks	mark
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 thinks	nsubj
8	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 small	advcl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thinks	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 does	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 does	cc
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 does	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 does	nsubj
15	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thinks	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 harm	det
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 harm	amod
18	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 does	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 people	case
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 harm	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 small	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	snakeling		small property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	nobody		of snakeling	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	present	snakeling	the more harm	to people	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality

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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