The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 69
The purr grew louder, and ended in the full-throated “Aaarh!” of the tiger’s charge.
Who acts: purr, tiger · What happens: grow, end, throat, charge · To what, where: throated Aaarh
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 (purr, tiger), 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 purr | det |
| 2 | purr | purr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ended | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ended | cc |
| 7 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Aaarh | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Aaarh | det |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 throated | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 full | punct |
| 12 | throated | throat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Aaarh | amod |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Aaarh | punct |
| 14 | Aaarh | Aaarh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ended | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 Aaarh | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Aaarh | punct |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 charge | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tiger | det |
| 19 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 charge | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 tiger | case |
| 21 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Aaarh | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the purr | loud property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | end | past | the purr not said here | the throated Aaarh of the tiger's charge | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | throat | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | charge | the tiger | nom charge «act transitive»: poss=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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