The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 59
The whine had changed to a sort of humming purr that seemed to come from every quarter of the compass.
Who acts: whine, humming purr · What happens: change, seem, come, sort · To what, where: quarter, humming purr
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 (whine, humming purr), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 whine | det |
| 2 | whine | whine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 changed | aux |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 sort | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sort | det |
| 7 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 purr | case |
| 9 | humming | humming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 purr | compound |
| 10 | purr | purr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sort | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 seemed | nsubj |
| 12 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 purr | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seemed | xcomp |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 quarter | case |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 quarter | det |
| 17 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 compass | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 compass | det |
| 20 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 quarter | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past · perfect | the whine | to a sort of humming purr result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to sort=Result | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | humming purr | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | humming purr not said here | every quarter of the compass | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from quarter=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | sort | humming purr | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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