The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 86
“Fired at without the chance of running into the people who are firing!” said the troop-horse, thinking hard.
Who acts: chance, people, troop horse · What happens: fire, run, say, think · To what, where: chance · 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 (chance, people, 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 | _ | 2 Fired | punct |
| 2 | Fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 said | ccomp |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 chance | case |
| 4 | without | without | ADP | _ | 6 chance | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chance | det |
| 6 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Fired | obl |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 running | mark |
| 8 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 chance | acl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 running | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 firing | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 firing | aux |
| 14 | firing | fire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 people | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 firing | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fired | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 horse | det |
| 19 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 horse | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 troop | punct |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 thinking | punct |
| 23 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 said | advcl |
| 24 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 thinking | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fire in a quote | participle | the chance | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at chance=Destination | |||||
| 2 | run in a quote | gerund | the chance not said here | into the people result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into people=Result | ||||
| 3 | fire in a quote | present · progressive | the people | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | the troop horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | gerund | the troop horse not said here | hard property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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