The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 29
“What price for a snake’s egg?
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: 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 | _ | 3 price | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 price | nsubj |
| 3 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 egg | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 snake | det |
| 6 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 egg | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 snake | case |
| 8 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 price | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 price | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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