The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 86
The other seals laughed at this, and the young seal began twisting his head from side to side.
Who acts: other seals, young seal · What happens: laugh, begin, twist · To what, where: this, head, side
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 (other seals, young seal), 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 seals | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seals | amod |
| 3 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 laughed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 seal | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 seal | amod |
| 11 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 began | nsubj |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughed | conj |
| 13 | twisting | twist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 began | xcomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 twisting | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 side | case |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 twisting | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 twisting | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the other seals | this | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the young seal | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | twist | gerund | the young seal not said here | seal's head | side | to side | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme from side=Source to side=Trajectory |
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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