The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 101
The moonlight was blocked out of the mouth of the cave, for Shere Khan’s great square head and shoulders were thrust into the entrance.
What happens: block out, be · To what, where: moonlight, mouth, head thrust
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moonlight | det |
| 2 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blocked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 blocked | aux:pass |
| 4 | blocked | block | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 mouth | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mouth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mouth | det |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blocked | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 cave | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cave | det |
| 11 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mouth | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 head | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 head | case |
| 14 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Shere | flat |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Shere | case |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 head | amod |
| 18 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 head | compound |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 thrust | compound |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 shoulders | cc |
| 21 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 head | conj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 thrust | cop |
| 23 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blocked | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 entrance | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 entrance | det |
| 26 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blocked | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | block out | past · passive | the moonlight | the mouth of the cave | into the entrance | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | head thrust | 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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