The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 167

“Let me look,” said a woman with heavy copper rings on her wrists and ankles, and she peered at Mowgli under the palm of her hand.

Who acts: woman, Tiger · What happens: let, look, say, peer · To what, where: woman · 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 (woman, Tiger), 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 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 woman	det
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 rings	case
11	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rings	amod
12	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rings	compound
13	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 woman	nmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 wrists	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wrists	nmod:poss
16	wrists	wrist	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rings	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ankles	cc
18	ankles	ankle	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wrists	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 peered	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 peered	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 peered	nsubj
22	peered	peer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 Mowgli	case
24	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 peered	obl
25	under	under	ADP	_	27 palm	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 palm	det
27	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 peered	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 hand	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hand	nmod:poss
30	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 palm	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		a woman with heavy copper rings on Tiger's wrists and ankles = woman		tree rules
2	look in a quote	infinitive	a woman with heavy copper rings on Tiger's wrists and ankles = woman not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	a woman with heavy copper rings on Tiger's wrists and ankles			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	peer	past	Tiger		under the palm of Tiger's hand; at Mowgli	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at mowgli=Theme

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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