The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 36

The young mule’s teeth snapped, and I heard him say something about not being afraid of any beefy old bullock in the world.

Who acts: teeth, I, mule · What happens: snap, hear, say, not be · To what, where: mule, something · 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 (teeth, I, mule), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mule	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mule	amod
3	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 teeth	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 mule	case
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 snapped	nsubj
6	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 heard	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 snapped	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	obj
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 heard	xcomp
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 say	obj
14	about	about	SCONJ	_	17 afraid	mark
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 afraid	advmod
16	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 afraid	cop
17	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 something	acl
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 bullock	case
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 bullock	det
20	beefy	beefy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bullock	amod
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bullock	amod
22	bullock	bullock	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 afraid	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 world	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 world	det
25	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bullock	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 snapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	snap	past	the young mule's teeth			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	past	I	mule		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	mule not said here	something		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic
4	not is	gerund			of any beefy old bullock in the world; afraid property	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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