The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 99
“Have no fear,” said Gray Brother, licking his lips a little.
Who acts: Gray Brother · What happens: have, say, lick · To what, where: fear, lips · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Gray Brother), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 fear | det |
| 4 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Have | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Gray | Gray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Brother | amod |
| 9 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 licking | punct |
| 11 | licking | lick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lips | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 licking | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 little | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 licking | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | no fear | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Gray Brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | lick | gerund | Gray Brother not said here | Brother's lips | a little obl:unmarked | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lip=Source |
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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