The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 167
“My feelings exactly,” said Billy, crowding into the troop-horse for company.
Who acts: feelings · What happens: say, crowd · 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 (feelings), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 feelings | nmod:poss |
| 3 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 exactly | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 exactly | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Billy | Billy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 crowding | punct |
| 10 | crowding | crowd | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 horse | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 13 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 horse | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 troop | punct |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crowding | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 company | case |
| 17 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 horse | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My feelings | exactly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | crowd | gerund | My feelings not said here | into the troop horse for company | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into horse=Destination |
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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