The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 18
“But think how small he is,” said the Black Panther, who would have spoiled Mowgli if he had had his own way.
Who acts: Mowgli, Black Panther · What happens: think, be, say, spoil, have · To what, where: Black Panther, own way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mowgli, Black Panther), 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 | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 think | cc |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 small | advmod |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 think | ccomp |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 small | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 small | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Panther | det |
| 12 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Panther | compound |
| 13 | Panther | Panther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spoiled | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 spoiled | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 spoiled | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 spoiled | aux |
| 18 | spoiled | spoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 Panther | acl:relcl |
| 19 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 spoiled | obj |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 had | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 had | aux |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 spoiled | advcl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 way | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 way | amod |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | infinitive | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Mowgli | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Black Panther | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | spoil | would · perfect · passive | the Black Panther | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | have a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Mowgli | Mowgli's own way | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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