The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 53
“Don’t snuff at my ankles, or I’ll kick at you.
Who acts: you, dog · What happens: not snuff, kick · To what, where: ankles
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, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg236:2335): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 snuff | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 snuff | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 snuff | advmod |
| 4 | snuff | snuff | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 ankles | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ankles | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ankles | ankle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 snuff | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kick | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 kick | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 kick | nsubj |
| 11 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 kick | aux |
| 12 | kick | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 snuff | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 kick | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 snuff | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not snuff in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | my ankles | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | kick in a quote | future | dog | at you | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at you=Patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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