The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 35
He will scorch in the sun. What harm can a naked frog do us?
Who acts: clamor, naked frog · What happens: scorch, do · To what, where: sun., us
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 (clamor, naked frog), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 scorch | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 scorch | aux |
| 3 | scorch | scorch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sun. | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun. | det |
| 6 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scorch | obl |
| 7 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 8 harm | det |
| 8 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sun. | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 frog | det |
| 11 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 frog | amod |
| 12 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 do | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 scorch | conj |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 do | iobj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 scorch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scorch | future | clamor | the sun. what harm | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | can | a naked frog | us | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Eventuality |
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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