The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 82
He turned and galloped (a seal can gallop very swiftly for a short time) back to the sea; his little new mustache bristling with horror.
Who acts: Kotick, seal, little new mustache · What happens: turn, gallop, bristle
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, seal, little new mustache), 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 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 galloped | cc |
| 4 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 gallop | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 seal | det |
| 7 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gallop | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 gallop | aux |
| 9 | gallop | gallop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 galloped | ccomp |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 swiftly | advmod |
| 11 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 9 gallop | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 14 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gallop | obl |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 gallop | punct |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 gallop | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 sea | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sea | det |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 back | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 mustache | punct |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 mustache | nmod:poss |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 mustache | amod |
| 24 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 mustache | amod |
| 25 | mustache | mustache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gallop | parataxis |
| 26 | bristling | bristle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 mustache | acl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 horror | case |
| 28 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bristling | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Kotick | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | gallop | past | Kotick not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | gallop | can | a seal | time | swiftly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | bristle | gerund | Kotick's little new mustache not said here | with horror | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location with horror=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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