The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 130
So he backed out of the cave mouth growling, and when he was clear he shouted:
Who acts: Father, cave mouth · What happens: back out, growl, be, shout · To what, where: cave mouth
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, cave 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 backed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 backed | nsubj |
| 3 | backed | back | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 mouth | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mouth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mouth | det |
| 7 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mouth | compound |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 backed | obl |
| 9 | growling | growl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 mouth | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 clear | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 clear | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 clear | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 clear | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 clear | cop |
| 15 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 backed | conj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 shouted | nsubj |
| 17 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 clear | csubj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 backed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | back out | past | Father | the cave mouth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | growl | gerund | the cave mouth not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Father | clear property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | past | Father | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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