The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 178

The bullocks and the camel said, half aloud, “Afraid of Two Tails--what nonsense!”

Who acts: bullocks, Afraid · What happens: say, nonsense · 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 (bullocks, Afraid), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bullocks	det
2	bullocks	bullock	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 camel	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 camel	det
5	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bullocks	conj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 aloud	punct
8	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	9 aloud	advmod
9	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Afraid	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 Afraid	punct
12	Afraid	Afraid	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	parataxis
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Tails	case
14	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 Tails	nummod
15	Tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Afraid	nmod
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 nonsense	punct
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 nonsense	nsubj
18	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Afraid	appos
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 nonsense	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 nonsense	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	the bullocks and the camel					aloud property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	nonsense in a quote		Afraid of Two Tails						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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