The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 156
Imagine the feelings of Sunol if a car-horse called her a “skate,” and you can imagine how the Australian horse felt.
Who acts: you, car horse · What happens: imagine, call · To what, where: feelings, Sunol, Australian horse felt · 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 (you, car horse), 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 | Imagine | imagine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 feelings | det |
| 3 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Imagine | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Sunol | case |
| 5 | Sunol | Sunol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 feelings | nmod |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 called | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 horse | det |
| 8 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 horse | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 car | punct |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | nsubj |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Imagine | advcl |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 called | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 skate | det |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 skate | punct |
| 15 | skate | skate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 skate | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 skate | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 imagine | cc |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 imagine | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 imagine | aux |
| 21 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Imagine | conj |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 felt | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 felt | det |
| 24 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 felt | amod |
| 25 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 felt | compound |
| 26 | felt | felt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 imagine | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | imperative | you not said here | the feelings of Sunol | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot feeling=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call a condition, not said to happen | past | a car horse | Sunol | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | imagine | can | you | the Australian horse felt | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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