The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 150

“Empty clam-shells and dry seaweed!” snorted Sea Catch.

Who acts: Empty clam shells · What happens: snort · To what, where: Sea Catch

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 (Empty clam shells), 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	_	11 snorted	punct
2	Empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shells	amod
3	clam	clam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shells	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 clam	punct
5	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 snorted	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 seaweed	cc
7	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 seaweed	amod
8	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shells	conj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 seaweed	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 seaweed	punct
11	snorted	snort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Catch	compound
13	Catch	Catch	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 snorted	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 snorted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snort	past	Empty clam shells and dry seaweed	Sea Catch					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent catch=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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