The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 93
And a green light came into his eye, for he was very angry at having to fight at all.
Who acts: green light, light · What happens: come, be, have, fight · To what, where: eye, all
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 (green light, light), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 came | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 light | det |
| 3 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 light | amod |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 eye | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eye | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 angry | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 angry | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 angry | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 angry | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 angry | advmod |
| 14 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 came | parataxis |
| 15 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 16 having | mark |
| 16 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 angry | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 fight | mark |
| 18 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 having | xcomp |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 all | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 fight | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a green light | light's eye | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into eye=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | light | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | light not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fight | to-infinitive | light not said here | all | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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