The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 6
That autumn he left the beach as soon as he could, and set off alone because of a notion in his bullet-head.
Who acts: autumn · What happens: leave, set off · To what, where: beach
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 (autumn), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 autumn | det |
| 2 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 beach | det |
| 6 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 soon | advmod |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 left | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 could | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 could | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 soon | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 set | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 set | cc |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 left | advcl |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 set | compound:prt |
| 16 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 14 set | advmod |
| 17 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 20 notion | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 because | fixed |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 notion | det |
| 20 | notion | notion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 head | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | bullet | bullet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 head | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 bullet | punct |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 notion | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | that autumn | the beach | soon property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beach=Theme | |||
| 2 | set off | infinitive | that autumn not said here | because a notion in Kotick's bullet head; alone property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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