The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 119
So he dropped his head a little, and put it on one side.
Who acts: Nag · What happens: drop, put · To what, where: head, one side
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 (Nag), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg236:1571): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 dropped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dropped | nsubj |
| 3 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 little | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dropped | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 put | cc |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dropped | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 side | nummod |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | Nag | Nag's head | a little obl:unmarked | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 2 | put | past | Nag not said here | head | one side | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on side=Destination |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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