The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 98
See, little one, here are four annas to spend in sweetmeats because thou hast a little head under that great thatch of hair.
Who acts: you, thou · What happens: see, be, spend, have · To what, where: little one, four annas, sweetmeats, little head, great thatch
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 (you, thou), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 one | amod |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 See | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 annas | punct |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 annas | advmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 annas | cop |
| 8 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 annas | nummod |
| 9 | annas | anna | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 See | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 spend | mark |
| 11 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 annas | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 sweetmeats | case |
| 13 | sweetmeats | sweetmeat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 spend | obl |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 hast | mark |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 hast | nsubj |
| 16 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 head | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 head | amod |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hast | obj |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 thatch | case |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 thatch | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 thatch | amod |
| 23 | thatch | thatch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hast | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 hair | case |
| 25 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 thatch | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | little one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | four annas | here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spend | to-infinitive | you not said here | sweetmeats | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | have | present | thou | a little head | that great thatch of hair | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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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