The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 46
They bowed again, and Kotick began to lose his temper.
Who acts: flippers, Kotick · What happens: bow, begin, lose, temper · To what, where: temper
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, Kotick), 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 bowed | nsubj |
| 2 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 bowed | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 began | cc |
| 6 | Kotick | Kotick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 began | nsubj |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bowed | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 lose | mark |
| 9 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 began | xcomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 temper | nmod:poss |
| 11 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lose | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | flippers = flipper | again | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | Kotick | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | lose | to-infinitive | Kotick not said here | Kotick's temper | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | temper | Kotick | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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