The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 166
A tail at each end isn’t fair!”
Who acts: tail · What happens: not be
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 (tail), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tail | det |
| 2 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fair | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 end | case |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 end | det |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tail | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fair | cop |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 fair | advmod |
| 8 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 fair | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 fair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | a tail at each end | fair property | tree rules |
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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