The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 40
“Anybody can be forgiven for being scared in the night, I think, if they see things they don’t understand.
Who acts: mule, teeth · What happens: forgive, be, think, see, not understand · To what, where: Anybody, things
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 (mule, teeth), 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 forgiven | punct |
| 2 | Anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 forgiven | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 forgiven | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 forgiven | aux:pass |
| 5 | forgiven | forgive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 scared | case |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 scared | cop |
| 8 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 forgiven | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 scared | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 think | nsubj |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 forgiven | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 think | conj |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 see | obj |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 understand | nsubj |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 understand | aux |
| 22 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 understand | advmod |
| 23 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 things | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 forgiven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forgive in a quote | can · passive | Anybody | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | gerund | night | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present | mule | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | teeth = tooth | things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | not understand in a quote | present · do-support | teeth = tooth | things not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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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