The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 50
The split lips moved and twitched; and the glassy green eyes stared, but they did not speak.
Who acts: split lips, glassy green eyes, eyes · What happens: move, twitch, stare, not speak · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (split lips, glassy green eyes, eyes), 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 lips | det |
| 2 | split | split | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lips | compound |
| 3 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 moved | nsubj |
| 4 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 twitched | cc |
| 6 | twitched | twitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 moved | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 stared | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stared | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 eyes | det |
| 10 | glassy | glassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyes | amod |
| 11 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyes | amod |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stared | nsubj |
| 13 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 moved | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 speak | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 speak | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 speak | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 speak | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 speak | advmod |
| 19 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 stared | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | the split lips | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | twitch | past | the split lips not said here | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stare | past | the glassy green eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not speak speech: other | past · do-support | eyes = eye | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/50/