The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 24

“It is nothing, it is nothing, if thou art safe, oh, my pride of all little frogs!” whimpered Baloo.

Who acts: tank, nothing, my · What happens: be, whimper, pride · To what, where: nothing, Baloo, little frogs

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 (tank, nothing, my), 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	_	25 whimpered	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nothing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nothing	cop
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 whimpered	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nothing	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 nothing	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 nothing	cop
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 nothing	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 art	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 art	mark
11	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 art	nsubj
12	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nothing	parataxis
13	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 art	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 oh	punct
15	oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 nothing	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pride	punct
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 pride	nmod:poss
18	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nothing	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 frogs	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 frogs	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 frogs	amod
22	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 pride	nmod
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 pride	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 pride	punct
25	whimpered	whimper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 whimpered	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 whimpered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	tank	nothing	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	tank	nothing	tree rules
3	whimper	past	nothing	Baloo	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent baloo=Theme
4	pride in a quote		my	all little frogs	nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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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