The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 124
It was not the fashion for Sea Catch to eat anything during the four months he stayed on the beaches, and so his temper was generally bad.
Who acts: surf, Catch, temper · What happens: not be, eat, stay, be, temper · To what, where: fashion, anything, four months, beaches
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (surf, Catch, temper), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fashion | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fashion | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 fashion | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fashion | det |
| 5 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 Catch | case |
| 7 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Catch | compound |
| 8 | Catch | catch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fashion | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 eat | mark |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Catch | acl |
| 11 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 eat | obj |
| 12 | during | during | ADP | _ | 15 months | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 months | det |
| 14 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 months | nummod |
| 15 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 eat | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stayed | nsubj |
| 17 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 months | acl:relcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 beaches | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 beaches | det |
| 20 | beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stayed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 bad | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 bad | cc |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 bad | advmod |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 temper | nmod:poss |
| 25 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bad | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 bad | cop |
| 27 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 28 bad | advmod |
| 28 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fashion | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fashion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | surf | the fashion | for Sea Catch | tree rules | |||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | surf not said here | anything | month | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | |||
| 3 | stay | past | Catch | the four months not said here | the beaches | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme month=Location | |||
| 4 | is | past | Catch's temper | bad, generally property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | temper | Catch | nom temper «feeling 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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