The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 181

“Well,” said Two Tails, rubbing one hind leg against the other, exactly like a little boy saying a poem, “I don’t quite know whether you’d understand.”

Who acts: Two Tails, poem, you · What happens: say, rub, not know, have, understand · To what, where: one hind leg, other, little boy · 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, poem, you), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Well	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	_	9 rubbing	punct
9	rubbing	rub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 leg	nummod
11	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 leg	amod
12	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rubbing	obj
13	against	against	ADP	_	15 other	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 other	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rubbing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 boy	punct
17	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	21 boy	advmod
18	like	like	ADP	_	21 boy	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 boy	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 boy	amod
21	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rubbing	obl
22	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 boy	acl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 poem	det
24	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 saying	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 know	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 know	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 know	nsubj
28	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 know	aux
29	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 know	advmod
30	quite	quite	ADV	_	31 know	advmod
31	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 saying	ccomp
32	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	34 ’d	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 ’d	nsubj
34	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 know	ccomp
35	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 ’d	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Two Tails				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	rub	gerund	Two Tails not said here	one hind leg	the other	like a little boy	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leg=Theme against other=Destination
3	say speech: assert	gerund	a poem	a little boy not said here			tree rules
4	not know in a quote	present · do-support	a poem = poem				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	have in a quote	past	you				tree rules
6	understand in a quote	infinitive	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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