The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 120
Mother Wolf shook herself clear of the cubs and sprang forward, her eyes, like two green moons in the darkness, facing the blazing eyes of Shere Khan.
Who acts: Mother · What happens: shake, spring, face · To what, where: Wolf, eyes, blazing eyes
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 (Mother), 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 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | nsubj |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 shook | obj |
| 5 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shook | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cubs | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cubs | det |
| 8 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 clear | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sprang | cc |
| 10 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shook | conj |
| 11 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 10 sprang | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 eyes | punct |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sprang | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 moons | punct |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 moons | case |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 moons | nummod |
| 18 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 moons | amod |
| 19 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sprang | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 darkness | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 darkness | det |
| 22 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 moons | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 facing | punct |
| 24 | facing | face | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 sprang | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 eyes | det |
| 26 | blazing | blazing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 eyes | amod |
| 27 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 facing | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Khan | case |
| 29 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Khan | compound |
| 30 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 eyes | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | Mother | Wolf | clear property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 2 | spring | past | Mother not said here | Wolf's eyes | like two green moons in the darkness; forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | face | gerund | Mother not said here | the blazing eyes of Shere Khan | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Destination |
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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