The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 96
“No. Now you mention it,” said Billy, “you don’t look as though you were made for climbing or running--much.
Who acts: you, Billy · What happens: mention, say, not look, make, run · To what, where: No., you · 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, 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 5 mention | dislocated |
| 3 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 No. | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 mention | nsubj |
| 5 | mention | mention | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mention | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mention | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mention | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Billy | Billy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 look | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 look | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 look | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 look | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 look | advmod |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 look | advmod |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 21 made | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 made | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 made | aux:pass |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 look | advcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 climbing | case |
| 23 | climbing | climbing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obl |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 running | cc |
| 25 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 made | conj |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 much | punct |
| 27 | much | much | ADV | _ | 25 running | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mention speech: other in a quote | present | you | No. | No. dislocated | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Billy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not look in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | past · passive | you | for climbing | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for climbing=Asset | ||||
| 5 | run in a quote | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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