The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 82

“Now you want to know too much, young un,” said Billy, “and that is one way of getting kicked.

Who acts: you, Billy, that, one way · What happens: want, know, say, be, get, kick · To what, where: much, one way · 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 (you, Billy, that, one way), 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 want	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 want	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 know	mark
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 know	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 un	punct
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 un	amod
11	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 much	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Billy	Billy	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 way	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 way	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 way	cc
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 way	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 way	cop
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 way	nummod
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Billy	appos
23	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 getting	mark
24	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 way	acl
25	kicked	kick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 getting	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	you		now	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	know not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	much and young un		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	Billy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is a in a quote	present	that	one way		tree rules
5	get in a quote	gerund	one way not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	kick in a quote	participle	one way not said here			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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