The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 54
That was worth a little bruise,” said the brown bear tenderly.
Who acts: That, brown bear · What happens: be, say · 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 (That, brown bear), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 worth | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 worth | cop |
| 3 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bruise | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bruise | amod |
| 6 | bruise | bruise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 worth | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 worth | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 worth | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 worth | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bear | det |
| 11 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bear | amod |
| 12 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 13 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bear | amod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 worth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | That | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the brown bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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