The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 113
“You’ll break your necks in a minute,” said the troop-horse.
Who acts: You, troop horse · What happens: break, say · To what, where: necks · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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 | _ | 4 break | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 break | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 break | aux |
| 4 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 necks | nmod:poss |
| 6 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 break | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 minute | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 minute | det |
| 9 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 break | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 break | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 break | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 horse | det |
| 14 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 horse | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 troop | punct |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break in a quote | future | You | your necks | minute | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the troop horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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