The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 33
“That comes of being afraid,” said Billy.
Who acts: That, Billy · What happens: come, be, 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 (That, Billy), 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 | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 afraid | mark |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 afraid | cop |
| 6 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 comes | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Billy | Billy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | That | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | gerund | That not said here | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Billy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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