The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 66
“Stand still, Little Brother, for thy feet may do us harm.”
Who acts: you, feet · What happens: stand, do, harm · To what, where: Little Brother, us
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, feet), 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 | _ | 2 Stand | punct |
| 2 | Stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 2 Stand | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Brother | punct |
| 5 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Brother | amod |
| 6 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Stand | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 9 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 feet | nmod:poss |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 do | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Stand | conj |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 do | iobj |
| 14 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 do | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stand | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Little Brother | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | may | thy feet | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | harm in a quote | infinitive | thy feet not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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