The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 70

“Not alarmed, exactly,” said the troop-horse, “but it made me feel as though I had hornets where my saddle ought to be.

Who acts: troop horse, nose, hornets · What happens: not alarm, say, make, feel, have, be · To what, where: troop horse, hornets · 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 (troop horse, nose, hornets), 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	_	3 alarmed	punct
2	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 alarmed	advmod
3	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 alarmed	punct
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	3 alarmed	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 alarmed	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 alarmed	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 horse	det
10	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 horse	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 troop	punct
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 made	nsubj
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 made	obj
19	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 made	xcomp
20	as	as	ADV	_	23 had	advmod
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	23 had	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 feel	ccomp
24	hornets	hornet	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 had	obj
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 ought	advmod
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 saddle	nmod:poss
27	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ought	nsubj
28	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 hornets	acl:relcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 be	mark
30	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 ought	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not alarm in a quote	participle			exactly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	the troop horse			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make in a quote	past	nose	the troop horse = horse		tree rules
4	feel in a quote	infinitive	the troop horse = horse not said here			vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	have in a quote	past	the troop horse = horse	hornets		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hornet=Patient
6	be in a quote	to-infinitive	hornets not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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