The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 103
“One of our babies fell out of the nest yesterday and Nag ate him.”
Who acts: One, Nag · What happens: fall, eat · To what, where: nest, child
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, Nag), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fell | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 babies | case |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 babies | nmod:poss |
| 5 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 One | nmod |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 nest | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 nest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 nest | det |
| 10 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | obl |
| 11 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ate | cc |
| 13 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 ate | nsubj |
| 14 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fell | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ate | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fell | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall in a quote | past | One of our babies | the nest | yesterday | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out nest=Location | |||
| 2 | eat in a quote | past | Nag | child | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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