The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 5
And Kotick went off and danced the Fire-dance with a very heavy little heart.
Who acts: Kotick · What happens: go off, dance · To what, where: Fire dance
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | Kotick | Kotick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 danced | cc |
| 6 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dance | det |
| 8 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 dance | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Fire | punct |
| 10 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 danced | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 heart | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 heart | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 heavy | advmod |
| 14 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 heart | amod |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 heart | amod |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 danced | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | past | Kotick | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | dance | past | Kotick not said here | the Fire dance | with a heavy little heart | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dance=Theme |
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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