The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 122

“Good!” said Mowgli, staring round slowly.

Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: say, stare · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mowgli), 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	_	2 Good	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 staring	punct
8	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
9	round	round	ADV	_	8 staring	advmod
10	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	8 staring	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mowgli						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	stare	gerund	Mowgli not said here					round, slowly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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