The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 100
“Oh, my crupper and breastplate!” said the troop-horse under his breath.
Who acts: crupper · What happens: say · To what, where: troop horse, breath · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crupper), 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 crupper | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 crupper | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 crupper | nmod:poss |
| 5 | crupper | crupper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 breastplate | cc |
| 7 | breastplate | breastplate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crupper | conj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 crupper | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 crupper | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horse | det |
| 12 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 horse | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 troop | punct |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 breath | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 breath | nmod:poss |
| 17 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | my crupper and breastplate | the troop horse | horse's breath | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent horse=Topic |
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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