The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 155

“What is there to be afraid of?” said the priest.

Who acts: priest · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (priest), 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	_	7 afraid	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 is	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 afraid	cop
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
5	to	to	PART	_	7 afraid	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 afraid	cop
7	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	ccomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 afraid	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 afraid	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 afraid	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 priest	det
13	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present						afraid property	tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	the priest						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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