The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 70
Then there was a howl--an untigerish howl--from Shere Khan.
Who acts: howl · What happens: be
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 (howl), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 howl | det |
| 5 | howl | howl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 howl | punct |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 howl | det |
| 8 | untigerish | untigerish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 howl | amod |
| 9 | howl | howl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 howl | appos |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 Shere | punct |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 Shere | case |
| 12 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 howl | appos |
| 13 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Shere | flat |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a howl | there | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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