The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 155

There was very little talking at the Rock.

Who acts: little · What happens: be, talk · To what, where: Rock

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 (little), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 little	advmod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 was	nsubj
5	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 little	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 Rock	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Rock	det
8	Rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talking	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	little			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk	gerund	little not said here			the Rock			vn talk-37.5 «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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