The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 77
“They say that when a mule trips you can split a hen’s ear,” said Billy.
Who acts: shells, mule, you, Billy · What happens: say, trip, split · To what, where: ear · 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 (shells, mule, you, 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 say | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 split | mark |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 trips | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mule | det |
| 7 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trips | nsubj |
| 8 | trips | trip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 split | advcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 split | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 split | aux |
| 11 | split | split | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 say | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hen | det |
| 13 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ear | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 hen | case |
| 15 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 split | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | Billy | Billy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | shells = shell | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | trip in a quote | present | a mule | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | split in a quote | can | you | a hen's ear | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | ||||
| 4 | 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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