The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 137
“I’m coming to the parade to-morrow in my dog-cart,” she said.
Who acts: Vixen · What happens: be, come, say · To what, where: dog cart · 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 (Vixen), 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 | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’m | nsubj |
| 3 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | ccomp |
| 4 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 ’m | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 parade | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 parade | det |
| 7 | parade | parade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coming | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 morrow | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 to | punct |
| 10 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 parade | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 cart | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 cart | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cart | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 dog | punct |
| 15 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coming | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | Vixen | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | gerund | Vixen not said here | my dog cart | to the parade to morrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to parade=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Vixen | 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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