The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 49
She knew as well as I did that if there is one thing in the world the elephant is more afraid of than another it is a little barking dog.
Who acts: Vixen, I, one thing, elephant · What happens: know, do, be · To what, where: that, one thing, little barking dog
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 (Vixen, I, one thing, elephant), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 2 knew | advmod |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 as | fixed |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 did | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 did | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 did | obj |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 is | mark |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 is | expl |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 did | advcl |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 thing | nummod |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 is | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thing | nmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 elephant | det |
| 18 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 afraid | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 afraid | cop |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 afraid | advmod |
| 21 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thing | acl:relcl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 another | case |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 another | case |
| 24 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 afraid | obl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 dog | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 dog | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 dog | det |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 dog | amod |
| 29 | barking | barking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dog | compound |
| 30 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 another | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Vixen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | do | past | I | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | be a condition, not said to happen | present | one thing in the world | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the elephant | one thing in the world not said here | of another; afraid property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a | present | elephant | a little barking dog | 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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