The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 18
“If a cub can do it, there is nothing to fear.”
Who acts: cub, nothing · What happens: do, be, fear · To what, where: pot
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 (cub, nothing), 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 | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cub | det |
| 4 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 is | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 is | expl |
| 10 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | advcl |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 is | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 fear | mark |
| 13 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 nothing | acl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | can | a cub | pot | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fear in a quote | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=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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