The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 84

You can twist it, you can turn it, you can plait it till you drop, But the way of Pilly Winky’s not the way of Winkie Pop!

Who acts: You, way · What happens: twist, turn, plait, drop, not be · To what, where: Majesty, way

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, way), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 twist	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 twist	aux
3	twist	twist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 twist	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 turn	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 turn	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 turn	aux
8	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 twist	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 turn	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 plait	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 plait	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 plait	aux
13	plait	plait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 twist	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 plait	obj
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 drop	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 drop	nsubj
17	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 plait	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 way	punct
19	But	but	CCONJ	_	28 way	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 way	det
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 way	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Pilly	case
23	Pilly	Pilly	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 way	nmod
24	Winky	Winky	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Pilly	flat
25	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 way	cop
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 way	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 way	det
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 twist	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 Pop	case
30	Winkie	Winkie	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Pop	compound
31	Pop	Pop	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 way	nmod
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 twist	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	twist	can	You	Majesty		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	turn	can	you	Majesty		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	plait	can	you	Majesty		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	drop	present	you			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	not is a	present	the way of Pilly	the way	of Winkie Pop	tree rules

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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