The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 71
The sea cows had separated and were browsing lazily along the edges of the finest beaches that Kotick had ever seen.
Who acts: finest beaches · What happens: separate, browse, see · To what, where: sea cows
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 (finest beaches), 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 cows | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cows | compound |
| 3 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 separated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 separated | aux |
| 5 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 browsing | cc |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 browsing | aux |
| 8 | browsing | browse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 separated | conj |
| 9 | lazily | lazily | ADV | _ | 8 browsing | advmod |
| 10 | along | along | ADP | _ | 12 edges | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 edges | det |
| 12 | edges | edge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 browsing | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 beaches | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 beaches | det |
| 15 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 beaches | amod |
| 16 | beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 edges | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 seen | nsubj |
| 18 | Kotick | Kotick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 seen | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 seen | advmod |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 beaches | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 separated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | separate | past · perfect · passive | the sea cows | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | browse | past · progressive | along the edges of the finest beaches; lazily property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | the finest beaches | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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