The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 2

“Wah!” said Little Toomai, “thou art a big elephant,” and he wagged his fluffy head, quoting his father.

Who acts: Little, elephant, father · What happens: say, wag, quote · To what, where: fluffy head · Speech: someone speaks here

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, elephant, father), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Wah	wah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Wah	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Wah	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	nsubj
7	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Little	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 art	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 art	punct
10	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 art	nsubj
11	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 elephant	det
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 elephant	amod
14	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 art	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 art	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wagged	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wagged	nsubj
19	wagged	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 head	nmod:poss
21	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 head	amod
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wagged	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 quoting	punct
24	quoting	quote	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 wagged	advcl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 father	nmod:poss
26	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 quoting	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Little		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	wag	past	elephant	elephant's fluffy head	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
3	quote speech: other	gerund	elephant's father		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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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