The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 117

He would never have thought of it alone.”

Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: not think

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mowgli), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thought	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 thought	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 thought	aux
5	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thought	obl
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 thought	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	would · perfect	Mowgli					of Waingunga; alone property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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