The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 111
“And yet,” said Billy, “you dream bad dreams and upset the camp at night.
Who acts: Billy, you · What happens: say, dream, upset · To what, where: bad dreams, camp · 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 (Billy, you), 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 yet | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 yet | cc |
| 3 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 yet | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 yet | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Billy | Billy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dream | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 dream | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 dream | nsubj |
| 11 | dream | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dreams | amod |
| 13 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dream | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 upset | cc |
| 15 | upset | upset | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 dream | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 camp | det |
| 17 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 upset | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 night | case |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 upset | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Billy | yet | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | dream in a quote | present | you | bad dreams | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Topic | ||||
| 3 | upset in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the camp | night | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus camp=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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