The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 77

He thought that he was at the world’s end, but the roar of the seal nurseries behind him sounded as loud as the roar of a train in a tunnel.

Who acts: Kotick, roar, seal nurseries, train · What happens: think, be, sound, roar · To what, where: end · 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 (Kotick, roar, seal nurseries, train), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 end	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 end	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 end	cop
6	at	at	ADP	_	10 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 end	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 world	case
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sounded	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 sounded	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 roar	det
14	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sounded	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 nurseries	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 nurseries	det
17	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 nurseries	compound
18	nurseries	nursery	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 roar	nmod
19	behind	behind	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 nurseries	nmod
21	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 loud	advmod
23	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sounded	xcomp
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 roar	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 roar	det
26	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sounded	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 train	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 train	det
29	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 roar	nmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 tunnel	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 tunnel	det
32	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 train	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Kotick			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Kotick	at the world's end		tree rules
3	sound	past	the roar of the seal nurseries behind Kotick		as the roar of a train in a tunnel; loud property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	roar		the seal nurseries behind Kotick			nom roar «event intransitive»: of=agent
5	roar		a train in a tunnel			nom roar «event intransitive»: of=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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