The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 161
The old people in the nurseries took no notice of them, and the holluschickie kept to their own grounds, and the babies had a beautiful playtime.
Who acts: old people, babies · What happens: take, keep, have, notice · To what, where: notice, holluschickie, beautiful playtime, things
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 (old people, babies), 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 | 3 people | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 took | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 nurseries | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nurseries | det |
| 6 | nurseries | nursery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 people | nmod |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 notice | det |
| 9 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 notice | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 holluschickie | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 holluschickie | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 holluschickie | det |
| 15 | holluschickie | holluschickie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | parataxis |
| 16 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 holluschickie | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 grounds | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 grounds | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 grounds | amod |
| 20 | grounds | grounds | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 16 kept | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 had | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 had | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 babies | det |
| 24 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 playtime | det |
| 27 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 playtime | amod |
| 28 | playtime | playtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the old people in the nurseries | no notice of things | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | participle | the holluschickie not said here | to things's own grounds | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the babies | a beautiful playtime | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent playtime=Patient | ||||
| 4 | notice | things = thing | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=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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