The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 78
The bushes rustled a little in the thicket, and Father Wolf dropped with his haunches under him, ready for his leap.
Who acts: bushes, Father Wolf, Tabaqui · What happens: rustle, drop, leap · To what, where: little, thicket
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 (bushes, Father Wolf, Tabaqui), 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 bushes | det |
| 2 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rustled | nsubj |
| 3 | rustled | rustle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 little | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rustled | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 thicket | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thicket | det |
| 8 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rustled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dropped | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dropped | cc |
| 11 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Wolf | compound |
| 12 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 dropped | nsubj |
| 13 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rustled | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 haunches | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 haunches | nmod:poss |
| 16 | haunches | haunch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dropped | obl |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 dropped | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ready | punct |
| 20 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dropped | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 leap | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 leap | nmod:poss |
| 23 | leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ready | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rustled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rustle | past | the bushes | a little | the thicket | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in thicket=Location | |||
| 2 | drop | past | Father Wolf | with Tabaqui's haunches; under Tabaqui | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme under he=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | leap | Tabaqui | nom leap «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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