The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 155

Unless you have been there you cannot imagine what a frightening effect this steady come-down of troops has on the spectators, even when they know it is only a review.

Who acts: you, this, frightening effect, troops, effect · What happens: be, not imagine, down, have, know · To what, where: spectators, review · 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, this, frightening effect, troops), 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	Unless	unless	SCONJ	_	5 there	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 there	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 there	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 there	cop
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 imagine	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 imagine	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 imagine	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 imagine	advmod
9	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 has	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 effect	det
12	frightening	frightening	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 effect	amod
13	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 has	nsubj
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 down	nsubj
15	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 down	amod
16	come	come	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 down	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
18	down	down	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 effect	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 troops	case
20	troops	troops	NOUN	Number=Ptan	18 down	nmod
21	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 imagine	ccomp
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 spectators	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 spectators	det
24	spectators	spectator	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 has	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 know	punct
26	even	even	ADV	_	29 know	advmod
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 know	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 know	nsubj
29	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 imagine	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 review	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 review	cop
32	only	only	ADV	_	34 review	advmod
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 review	det
34	review	review	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 know	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect	you			there property	tree rules
2	not imagine	can	you				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	down		this			of troops	tree rules
4	have	present	a frightening effect		the spectators		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
5	know	present	troops				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	present	effect	a review			tree rules

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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