The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 46

“What--what will happen?” said Little Toomai.

Who acts: Little Toomai · What happens: happen, say · 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 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	_	6 happen	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 happen	nsubj
3	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 happen	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 happen	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 happen	aux
6	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 happen	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 happen	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Toomai	amod
11	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen in a quote	future							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past	Little Toomai						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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