The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 11
“The idea of a fourteen-hand mule with your training disgracing the battery before this gentleman!”
Who acts: training, your · What happens: disgrace, train · To what, where: battery
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 (training, your), 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 | _ | 3 idea | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 idea | det |
| 3 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mule | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mule | det |
| 6 | fourteen | fourteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hand | nummod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 fourteen | punct |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mule | compound |
| 9 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 idea | nmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 training | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 training | nmod:poss |
| 12 | training | training | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mule | nmod |
| 13 | disgracing | disgrace | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 training | acl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 battery | det |
| 15 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 disgracing | obj |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 gentleman | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 gentleman | det |
| 18 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 disgracing | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 idea | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 idea | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disgrace in a quote | gerund | your training not said here | the battery | before this gentleman | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus battery=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | train in a quote | your | nom training «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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