The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 140

“Sit down,” said the mule, “or you’ll snap your long stick-legs between the guns.”

Who acts: you, mule · What happens: sit down, say, snap · To what, where: long stick legs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mule), 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	_	2 Sit	punct
2	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 Sit	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Sit	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mule	det
8	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 snap	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 snap	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 snap	cc
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 snap	nsubj
13	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 snap	aux
14	snap	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Sit	conj
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 legs	nmod:poss
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 legs	amod
17	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 legs	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 stick	punct
19	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 snap	obj
20	between	between	ADP	_	22 guns	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 guns	det
22	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 snap	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit down in a quote	imperative	you not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the mule			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	snap in a quote	future	you	your long stick legs	between the guns	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leg=Theme

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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