The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 139

“He is afraid of me also,” said Little Toomai, standing up to his full height of four feet, with only one rag upon him.

Who acts: grandson, Little Toomai · What happens: be, say, stand up · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandson, Little Toomai), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 afraid	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	cop
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 afraid	obl
7	also	also	ADV	_	4 afraid	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Toomai	amod
12	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 standing	punct
14	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 standing	compound:prt
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 height	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 height	nmod:poss
18	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 height	amod
19	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 standing	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 feet	case
21	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 feet	nummod
22	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 height	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 rag	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 rag	case
25	only	only	ADV	_	26 one	advmod
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 rag	nummod
27	rag	rag	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 standing	obl
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 rag	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	grandson	of Little Toomai = toomai; afraid property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Little Toomai		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	stand up	gerund	Little Toomai not said here	to grandson's full height of four feet; with one rag upon grandson	vn assuming_position-50 «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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