The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 165
“Now,” said he, “in what manner was this wonderful thing done?”
Who acts: chief · What happens: say, be, do · To what, where: wonderful thing, manner · 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 (chief), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thing | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 thing | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 manner | case |
| 10 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 11 manner | det |
| 11 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thing | obl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 thing | cop |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 thing | det |
| 14 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thing | amod |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 thing | acl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 done | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | chief | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | this wonderful thing | what manner | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | participle | this wonderful thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «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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