The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 23
What dost thou know of softness, old Iron-feet?”
Who acts: thou · What happens: know
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 (thou), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 know | obj |
| 2 | dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 softness | case |
| 6 | softness | softness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 feet | punct |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 feet | amod |
| 9 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 feet | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Iron | punct |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 softness | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · do-support | thou | of softness and old Iron feet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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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