The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 125
Let’s pretend we are ... never mind, _Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!
Who acts: tail · What happens: be, pretend, not mind, hang down · To what, where: we, 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 (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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ’s | we | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | pretend | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 pretend | obj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | cop |
| 6 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 8 mind | punct |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 mind | advmod |
| 8 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Brother | punct |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 Brother | punct |
| 11 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mind | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hangs | punct |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 tail | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hangs | nsubj |
| 15 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mind | advcl |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 hangs | advmod |
| 17 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 15 hangs | advmod |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | let property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pretend | infinitive | we | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not mind | infinitive | Brother | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | hang down | present | thy tail | behind, down 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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