The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 44
They tucked the stuff into their mouths and chumped solemnly.
Who acts: flippers · What happens: tuck, chump · To what, where: stuff, mouths
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 (flippers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tucked | nsubj |
| 2 | tucked | tuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stuff | det |
| 4 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tucked | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 mouths | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tucked | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 chumped | cc |
| 9 | chumped | chump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tucked | conj |
| 10 | solemnly | solemnly | ADV | _ | 9 chumped | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tucked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tuck | past | flippers = flipper | the stuff | flippers's mouths | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme into mouth=Destination | |||
| 2 | chump | past | flippers = flipper not said here | solemnly property | 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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