The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 130
“He’s the only thing in the sea uglier than Sea Vitch,” screamed a Burgomaster gull, wheeling under Sea Vitch’s nose.
Who acts: Vitch, only thing · What happens: be, scream, wheel · To what, where: only thing, sea, Burgomaster gull, nose · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Vitch, only thing), 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 | _ | 6 thing | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 thing | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thing | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 5 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thing | amod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 screamed | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thing | nmod |
| 10 | uglier | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 thing | amod |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 Sea | case |
| 12 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 uglier | obl |
| 13 | Vitch | Vitch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Sea | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thing | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 thing | punct |
| 16 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 gull | det |
| 18 | Burgomaster | Burgomaster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 gull | compound |
| 19 | gull | gull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 screamed | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wheeling | punct |
| 21 | wheeling | wheel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 screamed | advcl |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 26 nose | case |
| 23 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Vitch | compound |
| 24 | Vitch | Vitch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 nose | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Vitch | case |
| 26 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wheeling | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Vitch | the only thing | the sea | tree rules | |||
| 2 | scream speech: express | past | the only thing | a Burgomaster gull | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gull=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wheel | gerund | the only thing not said here | Sea Vitch's nose | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: 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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