The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 128
He heard her savage hiss as the stroke missed.
Who acts: Tikki, stroke, wife · What happens: hear, miss, hiss · To what, where: savage hiss
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 (Tikki, stroke, wife), 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 | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hiss | nmod:poss |
| 4 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hiss | amod |
| 5 | hiss | hiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 missed | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stroke | det |
| 8 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 missed | nsubj |
| 9 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | advcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Tikki | wife's savage hiss | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer hiss=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | miss | past | the stroke | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | hiss | wife | nom hiss «event transitive»: poss=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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