The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 61

I never let her know that I understood beast talk, or she would have taken all sorts of liberties.

Who acts: I, Vixen · What happens: not let, know, understand, take, sort · To what, where: Vixen, beast talk, sorts, liberties · 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 (I, Vixen), 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	3 let	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 let	advmod
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 understood	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 understood	nsubj
8	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	ccomp
9	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 talk	compound
10	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 understood	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 taken	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 taken	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 taken	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 taken	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 taken	aux
16	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 let	conj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 sorts	det
18	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 taken	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 liberties	case
20	liberties	liberty	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sorts	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not let	past	I	Vixen	tree rules
2	know	infinitive	Vixen not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	understand	past	I	beast talk	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer talk=Stimulus
4	take	would · perfect	Vixen	all sorts of liberties	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Theme
5	sort			liberties	nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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