The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 98
“I am a fair length--a fair length,” said Kaa with a little pride.
Who acts: Kaa · What happens: be, say · To what, where: fair length · 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 (Kaa), 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 length | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 length | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 length | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 length | det |
| 5 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 length | amod |
| 6 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 length | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 length | det |
| 9 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 length | amod |
| 10 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 length | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 length | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 length | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 pride | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 pride | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pride | amod |
| 18 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Kaa | a fair length | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Kaa | with a little pride | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with pride=Manner |
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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