The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 17

Even a little boy could be of use there, and Toomai was as useful as three boys.

Who acts: little boy, Toomai · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, 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	Even	even	ADV	_	4 boy	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 boy	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 use	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 use	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 use	cop
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 use	case
8	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 use	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 useful	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 useful	cc
12	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 useful	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 useful	cop
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 useful	advmod
15	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 use	conj
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 boys	case
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 boys	nummod
18	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 useful	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	could	a little boy			there		of use	tree rules
2	is	past	Toomai					as three boys; useful property	tree rules

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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