The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 60
It was the noise that bewilders woodcutters and gypsies sleeping in the open, and makes them run sometimes into the very mouth of the tiger.
Who acts: whine, noise, woodcutters · What happens: be, bewilder, sleep, make, run · To what, where: noise, woodcutters, open, 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 (whine, noise, woodcutters), 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 | 4 noise | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 noise | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 noise | det |
| 4 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 bewilders | nsubj |
| 6 | bewilders | bewilder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 noise | acl:relcl |
| 7 | woodcutters | woodcutter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bewilders | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gypsies | cc |
| 9 | gypsies | gypsy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 woodcutters | conj |
| 10 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 woodcutters | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 open | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 open | det |
| 13 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sleeping | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 makes | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 makes | cc |
| 16 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bewilders | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 makes | obj |
| 18 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 makes | xcomp |
| 19 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 mouth | advmod |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 mouth | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mouth | det |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 mouth | advmod |
| 23 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 run | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 tiger | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tiger | det |
| 26 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mouth | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 noise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | whine | the noise | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bewilder | present | the noise | woodcutters and gypsies | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus woodcutter=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | sleep | gerund | woodcutters and gypsies not said here | the open | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in open=Location | ||||
| 4 | make | present | the noise not said here | woodcutters = woodcutter | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | run | infinitive | woodcutters = woodcutter not said here | into the mouth of the tiger result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into mouth=Result |
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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