The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 94

Nobody answered, and the troop-horse said, to change the conversation, “Where’s that little dog?

Who acts: Nobody, troop horse · What happens: answer, say, change · To what, where: conversation · 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 (Nobody, troop horse), 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 answered	nsubj
2	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
6	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horse	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 troop	punct
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 answered	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 change	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	12 change	mark
12	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 conversation	det
14	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 change	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ’s	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 ’s	punct
17	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 ’s	advmod
18	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 change	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 dog	mark
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 dog	amod
21	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ’s	advcl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Nobody		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the troop horse		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	change	to-infinitive		the conversation	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conversation=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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