The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 76
“Something is coming uphill,” said Mother Wolf, twitching one ear.
Who acts: Something, Mother Wolf · What happens: come, say, twitch · To what, where: one ear · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Something, Mother Wolf), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 coming | punct |
| 2 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 coming | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 coming | aux |
| 4 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | uphill | uphill | ADV | _ | 4 coming | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 coming | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 coming | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Wolf | compound |
| 10 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 twitching | punct |
| 12 | twitching | twitch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 ear | nummod |
| 14 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 twitching | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · progressive | Something | uphill property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Mother Wolf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | twitch | gerund | Mother Wolf not said here | one ear | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=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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