The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 34
Then he jumped like a cat, for he saw huge things nosing about in the shoal water and browsing on the heavy fringes of the weeds.
Who acts: seal, huge things · What happens: jump, see, nose, browse · To what, where: huge things, heavy fringes
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 (seal, huge things), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 jumped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 cat | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cat | det |
| 6 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 saw | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 11 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 saw | obj |
| 13 | nosing | nose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 things | acl |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 17 | shoal | shoal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 water | amod |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nosing | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 browsing | cc |
| 20 | browsing | browse | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 nosing | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 fringes | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fringes | det |
| 23 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fringes | amod |
| 24 | fringes | fringe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 browsing | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 weeds | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 weeds | det |
| 27 | weeds | weed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fringes | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | seal | then | like a cat | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | seal | huge things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | nose | gerund | huge things not said here | about the shoal water | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme about water=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | browse | gerund | huge things not said here | the heavy fringes of the weeds | tree rules |
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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