The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 190

“I can,” said the troop-horse.

Who acts: troop horse · 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 (troop horse), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 can	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 can	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 can	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horse	det
8	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 horse	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 troop	punct
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the troop horse						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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