The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 89
“Oho!” said Petersen Sahib, smiling underneath his mustache, “and why didst thou teach thy elephant that trick?
Who acts: Petersen · What happens: say, smile, do, teach · To what, where: thou, elephant · 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 (Petersen), 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 | Oho | oho | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oho | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oho | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Petersen | Petersen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | Sahib | Sahib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Petersen | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 smiling | punct |
| 9 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 10 | underneath | underneath | ADP | _ | 12 mustache | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mustache | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mustache | mustache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 smiling | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 didst | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 didst | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 didst | cc |
| 16 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 didst | advmod |
| 17 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 didst | obj |
| 19 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 didst | xcomp |
| 20 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 elephant | nmod:poss |
| 21 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 teach | obj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 trick | det |
| 23 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 elephant | obj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Petersen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | smile | gerund | Petersen not said here | underneath Petersen's mustache | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | past | Petersen not said here | thou | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | teach speech: other in a quote | infinitive | Petersen not said here | thy elephant | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent elephant=Recipient |
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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