The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 173
“Yes,” said Two Tails, with a laugh all up his trunk.
Who acts: Two Tails · What happens: say · 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 (Two Tails), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 Tails | nummod |
| 7 | Tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 laugh | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 laugh | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 laugh | det |
| 11 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 trunk | advmod |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 trunk | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 15 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laugh | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Two Tails | with a laugh up elephant's trunk | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with laugh=Manner |
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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