The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 87
He had just married that year, and was making a great fuss about it.
What happens: marry, make · To what, where: seal, great fuss
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: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 married | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 married | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 married | advmod |
| 4 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 married | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 making | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 making | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 making | aux |
| 10 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 married | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fuss | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fuss | amod |
| 13 | fuss | fuss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 making | obj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fuss | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · perfect · passive | seal | year | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | past · progressive | a great fuss | about fuss | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fuss=Product |
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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