The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 77
“In a little time, had I stayed, I should have walked down his throat.”
Who acts: Bagheera · What happens: be, stay, walk down · To what, where: little time, throat
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 (Bagheera), 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 | _ | 14 walked | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 walked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 stayed | nsubj |
| 9 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 walked | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 walked | aux |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 walked | aux |
| 14 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 walked | compound:prt |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 throat | nmod:poss |
| 17 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 walked | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 walked | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | in a little time | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stay in a quote | past | Bagheera | a little time not said here | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme time=Location | ||||
| 3 | walk down in a quote | should · perfect | Bagheera | Whoof's throat | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme throat=Trajectory |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/7/77/