The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 35
“All thanks, Little Brother,” said Kaa, though his eyes twinkled.
Who acts: thanks, eyes · What happens: say, twinkle · 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 (thanks, eyes), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 thanks | det |
| 3 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Brother | punct |
| 5 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Brother | amod |
| 6 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thanks | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanks | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanks | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 twinkled | punct |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 15 twinkled | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 twinkled | nsubj |
| 15 | twinkled | twinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | all thanks | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | twinkle | past | Kaa's eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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