The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 106
It tickles my girths, and, besides, I can’t see with my head on the ground.”
Who acts: trust, I · What happens: tickle, not see · To what, where: girths, ground
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 (trust, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tickles | nsubj |
| 2 | tickles | tickle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 girths | nmod:poss |
| 4 | girths | girth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tickles | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 and | punct |
| 8 | besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 13 see | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 besides | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 11 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 12 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 see | advmod |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tickles | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 head | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 ground | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tickles | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 tickles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tickle | present | trust | my girths | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girth=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not see | can | I | the ground | with my head | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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