The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 180
Two Tails, why are you afraid of the guns when they fire?”
Who acts: Two Tails, tails · What happens: be, fire
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, 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Tails | nummod |
| 2 | Tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 afraid | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 afraid | punct |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 afraid | advmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 afraid | cop |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 afraid | nsubj |
| 7 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 guns | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 guns | det |
| 10 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 afraid | obl |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 fire | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fire | nsubj |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 afraid | advcl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 afraid | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Two Tails | of the guns; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fire | tails = tail | 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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