The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 31

It pleased him to see Mother and Father Wolf look uncomfortable.

What happens: see, look · To what, where: Mother

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: 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pleased	nsubj
2	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pleased	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pleased	advcl
6	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Father	cc
8	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Mother	appos
9	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Father	flat
10	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 see	conj
11	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 look	xcomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive		Mother					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus
2	look	infinitive						uncomfortable property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: 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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