The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 8
“Thou art a boy, and as wild as a buffalo-calf.
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: 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 art | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 art | nsubj |
| 3 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 art | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wild | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wild | cc |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 wild | advmod |
| 9 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 art | conj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 calf | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 calf | det |
| 12 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 calf | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 buffalo | punct |
| 14 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wild | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | 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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