The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 82
“To think that thou canst skin a tiger!
Who acts: thou · What happens: think, skin · To what, where: tiger · 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), 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 | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 think | mark |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 skin | mark |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 skin | nsubj |
| 6 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 7 skin | aux |
| 7 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 think | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tiger | det |
| 9 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 skin | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | skin in a quote | can | thou | a tiger | tree rules |
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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