The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 21
Didst thou think these creatures could move so swiftly?”
Who acts: thou, creatures · What happens: think, move · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, creatures), 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 | Didst | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | aux |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 creatures | det |
| 5 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 move | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 move | aux |
| 7 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 think | ccomp |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 swiftly | advmod |
| 9 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 7 move | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · do-support | thou | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | move | could | this creatures | swiftly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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