The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 114
Wouldn’t you like if your tails were--so-- Curved in the shape of a Cupid’s bow?
Who acts: you · What happens: not like, curve · To what, where: tails, shape
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | aux |
| 2 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 like | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 like | nsubj |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 Curved | mark |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tails | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Curved | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Curved | aux:pass |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 Curved | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 Curved | advmod |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 Curved | punct |
| 12 | Curved | curve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 like | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 shape | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shape | det |
| 15 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Curved | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 bow | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Cupid | det |
| 18 | Cupid | Cupid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 bow | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Cupid | case |
| 20 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shape | nmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | would | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | curve | past · passive | your tails | the shape of a Cupid's bow | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material |
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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