The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 42
The big things answered by bowing and waving their flippers like the Frog Footman.
What happens: answer, bow, wave · To what, where: big things, flippers
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 things | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 things | amod |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 things | acl |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 bowing | mark |
| 6 | bowing | bow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 answered | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 waving | cc |
| 8 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 bowing | conj |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 flippers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | flippers | flipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 waving | obj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 Footman | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Footman | det |
| 13 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Footman | compound |
| 14 | Footman | Footman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 flippers | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 things | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | participle | the big things not said here | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bow | gerund | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | wave | gerund | things's flippers | like the Frog Footman | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flipper=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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