The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 110
But Father Wolf knew that the mouth of the cave was too narrow for a tiger to come in by.
Who acts: Father Wolf, mouth · What happens: know, be, come in · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Father Wolf, mouth), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 knew | cc |
| 2 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wolf | compound |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 narrow | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mouth | det |
| 7 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 narrow | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cave | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cave | det |
| 10 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mouth | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 narrow | cop |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 narrow | advmod |
| 13 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knew | ccomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 tiger | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tiger | det |
| 16 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 come | mark |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 knew | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 come | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Father Wolf | for a tiger | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the mouth of the cave | narrow property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come in | to-infinitive | Father Wolf not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP 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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