The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 13
The leader of the school rolled his white eye and ducked under.
Who acts: leader · What happens: roll, duck under · To what, where: white eye
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leader), 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 leader | det |
| 2 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rolled | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 school | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 school | det |
| 5 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leader | nmod |
| 6 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eye | nmod:poss |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eye | amod |
| 9 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rolled | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ducked | cc |
| 11 | ducked | duck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 rolled | conj |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 ducked | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | past | the leader of the school | school's white eye | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Agent | ||||
| 2 | duck under | participle | the leader of the school not said here | vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: 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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