The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 141
“We had thought that thou wouldst know, Kaa.”
Who acts: We, thou · What happens: think, know · To what, where: Kaa · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | aux |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 know | mark |
| 6 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 know | nsubj |
| 7 | wouldst | would | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | aux |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Kaa | punct |
| 10 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 know | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | past · perfect | We | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | would | thou | Kaa | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer kaa=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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