The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 166
Little seals can no more swim than little children, but they are unhappy till they learn.
Who acts: seas · What happens: be, learn
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 (seas), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 seals | amod |
| 2 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 swim | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 swim | aux |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 swim | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 swim | amod |
| 6 | swim | swim | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 children | case |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 children | amod |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 swim | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 unhappy | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 unhappy | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 unhappy | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 unhappy | cop |
| 14 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 swim | parataxis |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 learn | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 learn | nsubj |
| 17 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 unhappy | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 swim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | seas = sea | unhappy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | learn | present | seas = sea | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: 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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