The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 91
The water comes out of my eyes; yet I laugh while it falls.
Who acts: water, I, heart · What happens: come out, laugh, fall · To what, where: eyes
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 (water, I, heart), 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 | 2 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 comes | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 laugh | punct |
| 9 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 11 laugh | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 laugh | nsubj |
| 11 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 comes | conj |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 falls | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 falls | nsubj |
| 14 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 laugh | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | present | the water | my eyes | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient eye=Result | ||||
| 2 | laugh | present | I | yet | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fall | present | heart | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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