The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 73
Father Wolf ran out a few paces and heard Shere Khan muttering and mumbling savagely as he tumbled about in the scrub.
Who acts: Father · What happens: run out, hear, mutter, mumble, tumble · To what, where: few paces, Shere
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 (Father), 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 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Father | flat |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 ran | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 paces | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 paces | amod |
| 7 | paces | pace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 heard | cc |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 10 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obj |
| 11 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Shere | flat |
| 12 | muttering | mutter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 heard | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mumbling | cc |
| 14 | mumbling | mumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 muttering | conj |
| 15 | savagely | savagely | ADV | _ | 14 mumbling | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 tumbled | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 tumbled | nsubj |
| 18 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 mumbling | advcl |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 tumbled | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 scrub | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 scrub | det |
| 22 | scrub | scrub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tumbled | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run out | past | Father | a few paces | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pace=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Father not said here | Shere | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer shere=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | mutter speech: assert | gerund | Father not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | mumble speech: other | gerund | Father not said here | savagely property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | tumble | past | Father | in the scrub; about property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in scrub=Attribute |
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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