The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 78
“Now and again perhaps a badly packed saddle will upset a mule, but it’s very seldom.
Who acts: packed saddle · What happens: upset · To what, where: mule
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 (packed saddle), 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 | _ | 11 upset | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 upset | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 again | cc |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 Now | conj |
| 5 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 9 saddle | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 saddle | det |
| 7 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 packed | advmod |
| 8 | packed | packed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 saddle | amod |
| 9 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 upset | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 upset | aux |
| 11 | upset | upset | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 mule | det |
| 13 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 upset | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ’s | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 ’s | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ’s | nsubj |
| 17 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 upset | conj |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 seldom | advmod |
| 19 | seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | 17 ’s | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 upset | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | upset in a quote | future | a packed saddle | a mule | now | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mule=Experiencer |
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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