The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 40

“Stop that!” said Billy and the troop horse together, and I could hear them stamp and shiver.

Who acts: Billy, I, things · What happens: stop, say, hear, stamp, shiver · To what, where: that, things · 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 (Billy, I, things), 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	_	2 Stop	punct
2	Stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Stop	obj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Billy	Billy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 horse	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 horse	det
10	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 horse	compound
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Billy	conj
12	together	together	ADV	_	11 horse	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hear	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hear	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 hear	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 hear	aux
17	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hear	obj
19	stamp	stamp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 hear	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 shiver	cc
21	shiver	shiver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 stamp	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stop in a quote	infinitive		that	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality that=Eventuality
2	say speech: express	past	Billy and the troop horse		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hear	could	I	things = thing	tree rules
4	stamp	infinitive	things = thing not said here		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	shiver	infinitive	things = thing not said here		vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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