The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 75
So they went on very slowly, past Sea Lion’s Neck, past Webster House, till they came to the Salt House just beyond the sight of the seals on the beach.
Who acts: seals · What happens: go on, come, sight · To what, where: Salt House, seals
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 (seals), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 slowly | advmod |
| 6 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Neck | punct |
| 8 | past | past | ADP | _ | 12 Neck | case |
| 9 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Lion | compound |
| 10 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Neck | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Lion | case |
| 12 | Neck | Neck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 House | punct |
| 14 | past | past | ADP | _ | 16 House | case |
| 15 | Webster | Webster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 House | compound |
| 16 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Neck | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 18 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 20 came | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 House | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 House | det |
| 23 | Salt | Salt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 House | compound |
| 24 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 25 | just | just | ADV | _ | 28 sight | advmod |
| 26 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 28 sight | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sight | det |
| 28 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 seals | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 seals | det |
| 31 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 sight | nmod |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 beach | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 beach | det |
| 34 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 seals | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | seals = seal | past Sea Lion's Neck and Webster House; slowly property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | seals = seal | the Salt House | beyond the sight of the seals on the beach | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | sight | the seals on the beach | nom sight «cognition 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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