The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 66
Kotick followed, and the pace astonished him, for he never dreamed that Sea Cow was anything of a swimmer.
Who acts: Kotick, pace · What happens: follow, astonish, not dream, be · To what, where: Kotick, anything
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, pace), 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 | Kotick | Kotick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 astonished | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 astonished | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pace | det |
| 6 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 astonished | nsubj |
| 7 | astonished | astonish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 followed | parataxis |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 astonished | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dreamed | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 dreamed | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 dreamed | nsubj |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 dreamed | advmod |
| 13 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 astonished | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 anything | mark |
| 15 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Cow | compound |
| 16 | Cow | Cow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 anything | compound |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 anything | cop |
| 18 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 dreamed | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 swimmer | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 swimmer | det |
| 21 | swimmer | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 anything | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Kotick | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | astonish | past | the pace | Kotick | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not dream | past | Kotick | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | anything | of a swimmer | 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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