The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 118
“I did not know these things,” said Mowgli sullenly, and he frowned under his heavy black eyebrows.
Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: not know, say, frown · To what, where: things, heavy black eyebrows · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mowgli), 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 | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 things | det |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 know | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | sullenly | sullenly | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 frowned | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 frowned | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 frowned | nsubj |
| 16 | frowned | frown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 eyebrows | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eyebrows | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 eyebrows | amod |
| 20 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 eyebrows | amod |
| 21 | eyebrows | eyebrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 frowned | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | past · do-support | Mowgli | this things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Mowgli | sullenly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | frown | past | Mowgli | Mowgli's heavy black eyebrows | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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