The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 56
Oh, why doesn’t someone take her away?
Who acts: someone · What happens: not take away · To what, where: stuff
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 (someone), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 take | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 take | advmod |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 take | advmod |
| 6 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 take | nsubj |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 take | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take away | present · do-support | someone | stuff | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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