The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 160
And the anxious mothers would take up the call: “Look--look well, O Wolves!”
Who acts: anxious mothers · What happens: take up, look · To what, where: call, O Wolves
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 (anxious mothers), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 take | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mothers | det |
| 3 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mothers | amod |
| 4 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 take | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 take | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 call | det |
| 9 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Look | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Look | punct |
| 12 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 take | conj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 look | punct |
| 14 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Look | conj |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 look | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Wolves | punct |
| 17 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Wolves | compound |
| 18 | Wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Look | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | would | the anxious mothers | the call | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look in a quote | infinitive | the anxious mothers not said here | O Wolves | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | look in a quote | infinitive | the anxious mothers not said here | well property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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