The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 147
It is nearly always foggy at Novastoshnah, except when the sun comes out and makes everything look all pearly and rainbow-colored for a little while.
Who acts: fog, sun, everything · What happens: be, come out, make, look, color · To what, where: Novastoshnah, everything, all
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 (fog, sun, everything), 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 foggy | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 foggy | cop |
| 3 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 5 foggy | advmod |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 foggy | advmod |
| 5 | foggy | foggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Novastoshnah | case |
| 7 | Novastoshnah | Novastoshnah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 foggy | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 comes | punct |
| 9 | except | except | ADP | _ | 13 comes | mark |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 comes | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sun | det |
| 12 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 comes | nsubj |
| 13 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 foggy | parataxis |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 comes | compound:prt |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 makes | cc |
| 16 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 comes | conj |
| 17 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 makes | obj |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 makes | xcomp |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 look | obj |
| 20 | pearly | pearly | ADV | _ | 24 colored | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 colored | cc |
| 22 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 colored | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 rainbow | punct |
| 24 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 all | acl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 while | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 while | det |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 while | amod |
| 28 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 colored | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 foggy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fog | Novastoshnah | always, foggy, nearly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come out | present | the sun | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | make | present | the sun not said here | everything | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look | infinitive | everything not said here | all | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme all=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | color | participle | while | pearly property | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=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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