The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 105
His curly white mane stood up with rage, and his eyes flamed, and his big dog teeth glistened, and he was splendid to look at.
Who acts: curly white mane, eyes, seal · What happens: stand up, flame, glisten, be, look · To what, where: big dog teeth
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curly white mane, eyes, seal), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mane | nmod:poss |
| 2 | curly | curly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mane | amod |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mane | amod |
| 4 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 stood | compound:prt |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 rage | case |
| 8 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 flamed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 flamed | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 flamed | nsubj |
| 13 | flamed | flame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 teeth | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 teeth | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 teeth | amod |
| 18 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 teeth | compound |
| 19 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 flamed | obl |
| 20 | glistened | glisten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 teeth | acl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 splendid | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 splendid | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 splendid | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 splendid | cop |
| 25 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 flamed | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 look | mark |
| 27 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 splendid | xcomp |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 look | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | seal's curly white mane | with rage | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | flame | past | seal's eyes | seal's big dog teeth | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | glisten | participle | seal's big dog teeth not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | seal | splendid property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | seal not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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