The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 114

Did you ever hear anything so awful as that?”

Who acts: you · What happens: hear · To what, where: anything

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 (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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 hear	nsubj
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 hear	advmod
4	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 hear	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 awful	advmod
7	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 anything	amod
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 that	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 awful	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	you	anything			ever		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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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