The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 14

“I can smell it now, just thinking of it.

Who acts: horse · What happens: smell, think · To what, where: snort

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 (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 smell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 smell	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 smell	aux
4	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 smell	obj
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 smell	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thinking	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 thinking	advmod
9	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 smell	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thinking	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 smell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell in a quote	can	horse	snort			now		vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	think speech: other in a quote	gerund	horse not said here					of snort	vn focus-87.1-1 «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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