The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 31
I should be a king in the forest, as I used to be, sleeping half the day and bathing when I liked.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, use, sleep, like · To what, where: king, forest
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 king | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 king | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 king | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 king | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 used | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 used | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 used | nsubj |
| 12 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 king | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 be | mark |
| 14 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 used | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sleeping | punct |
| 16 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 used | advcl |
| 17 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 19 day | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sleeping | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bathing | cc |
| 21 | bathing | bathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 day | conj |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 liked | advmod |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 liked | nsubj |
| 24 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sleeping | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | should | I | a king | the forest | tree rules | |||
| 2 | use | past | I | a king not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Theme clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | be | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sleep | gerund | I not said here | day | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | like | past | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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