The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 76
“Don’t you ever trip?” said the troop-horse.
Who acts: you, troop horse · What happens: not trip, 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 (you, troop horse), 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 | _ | 6 trip | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 trip | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 trip | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 trip | nsubj |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 trip | advmod |
| 6 | trip | trip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 trip | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 trip | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 horse | det |
| 11 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 horse | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 troop | punct |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not trip in a quote | infinitive · do-support | you | ever | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the troop horse | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/76/