The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 72

“I’m frightened of a little dog, and the camel here is frightened by bad dreams in the night.”

Who acts: little dog, bad dreams · What happens: frighten · To what, where: troop horse, camel

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 (little dog, bad dreams), 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	_	4 frightened	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 frightened	nsubj:pass
3	’m	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 frightened	aux:pass
4	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 dog	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dog	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dog	amod
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frightened	obl:agent
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 frightened	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 frightened	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 camel	det
12	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 frightened	nsubj:pass
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 camel	advmod
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 frightened	aux:pass
15	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 frightened	conj
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 dreams	case
17	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dreams	amod
18	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 frightened	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 night	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 night	det
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 frightened	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 frightened	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten in a quote	present · passive	a little dog	the troop horse = horse					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	frighten in a quote	present · passive	bad dreams	the camel			night		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer

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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