The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 62

So long as the bungalow is empty, we are king and queen of the garden; and remember that as soon as our eggs in the melon bed hatch (as they may tomorrow), our children will need room and quiet.”

Who acts: bungalow, we, children · What happens: be, remember, need · To what, where: king, room

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 (bungalow, we, children), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 empty	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 empty	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bungalow	det
5	bungalow	bungalow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 empty	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 empty	cop
7	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 king	punct
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 king	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 king	cop
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 empty	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 queen	cc
13	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 king	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 garden	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 garden	det
16	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 queen	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 remember	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 remember	cc
19	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 empty	parataxis
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 soon	mark
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 soon	advmod
22	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 remember	advmod
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 eggs	case
24	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 eggs	nmod:poss
25	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 soon	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	30 hatch	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hatch	det
28	melon	melon	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bed	compound
29	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hatch	compound
30	hatch	hatch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 soon	obl
31	(	(	PUNCT	_	34 may	punct
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 may	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 may	nsubj
34	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 remember	ccomp
35	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 may	obl:unmarked
36	)	)	PUNCT	_	34 may	punct
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 need	punct
38	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 children	nmod:poss
39	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 need	nsubj
40	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 need	aux
41	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 remember	parataxis
42	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 need	obj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 quiet	cc
44	quiet	quiet	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 room	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 empty	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 empty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the bungalow		empty, long property	tree rules
2	is a	present	we	king and queen of the garden		tree rules
3	remember	infinitive			soon property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	need	future	our children	room and quiet		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot room=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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