The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 30

We told your friend here that there was nothing to be afraid of, but he knew so much that he thought otherwise.

Who acts: We, nothing, friend · What happens: tell, be, know, think · To what, where: friend · 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 (We, nothing, friend), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friend	nmod:poss
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 told	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 was	mark
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	ccomp
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 was	nsubj
10	to	to	PART	_	12 afraid	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 afraid	cop
12	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nothing	acl
13	of	of	ADP	_	12 afraid	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knew	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 knew	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 knew	nsubj
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADV	_	17 knew	advmod
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 thought	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thought	nsubj
22	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 knew	advcl
23	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	22 thought	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	We	your friend	here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic
2	be	past	nothing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive	nothing not said here			afraid property	tree rules
4	know	past	friend				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	think speech: other	past	friend			otherwise property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/30/