The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 115
Now you’re angry, but--never mind, _Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!
Who acts: you, tail · What happens: be, not mind, hang · To what, where: Brother
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, tail), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ’re | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 ’re | nsubj |
| 3 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ’re | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mind | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 mind | cc |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 mind | punct |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 mind | advmod |
| 9 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ’re | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Brother | punct |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 Brother | punct |
| 12 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mind | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hangs | punct |
| 14 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 tail | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hangs | nsubj |
| 16 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ’re | conj |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 behind | advmod |
| 18 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 16 hangs | advmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’re | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | you | now | angry property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | not mind | infinitive | you not said here | Brother | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | hang | present | thy tail | behind property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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