The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 64

“A lot I should have cared whose fault it was, if it hurt!” said the young mule.

Who acts: lot, fault, young mule · What happens: care, be, say · To what, where: young mule, lot fault · 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 (lot, fault, young 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 fault	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lot	det
3	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fault	compound
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 cared	nsubj:pass
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 cared	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 cared	aux
7	cared	care	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lot	acl:relcl
8	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	9 fault	nmod:poss
9	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	ccomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hurt	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hurt	cop
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hurt	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 hurt	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hurt	nsubj
15	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fault	acl:relcl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 fault	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 fault	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mule	det
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mule	amod
21	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	care in a quote	should · perfect · passive	a lot not said here	the young mule = mule		tree rules
2	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	fault	lot fault not said here	hurt property	tree rules
3	say speech: express	past	the young mule			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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