The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 93
The baby was pushing his way between the cubs to get close to the warm hide.
Who acts: baby · What happens: push, get · To what, where: way, cubs
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 (baby), 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 baby | det |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pushing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pushing | aux |
| 4 | pushing | push | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pushing | obj |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 9 cubs | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cubs | det |
| 9 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pushing | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pushing | advcl |
| 12 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 get | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 hide | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hide | det |
| 15 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hide | amod |
| 16 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 close | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pushing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | past · progressive | the baby | baby's way | the cubs | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme between cub=Destination | |||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | the baby not said here | close property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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