The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 82

We need not walk into Shere Khan’s mouth.”

Who acts: We · What happens: not walk · To what, where: mouth

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 (We), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 walk	nsubj
2	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 walk	advmod
4	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	9 mouth	case
6	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mouth	nmod:poss
7	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Shere	flat
8	’s	's	PART	_	6 Shere	case
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walk	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 walk	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 walk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not walk	present	We					into Shere's mouth result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into mouth=Result

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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