The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 137
So he trotted off to the gravel path near the house, and sat down to think.
Who acts: snake · What happens: trot off, sit down, think · To what, where: gravel path
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 (snake), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 trotted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 trotted | nsubj |
| 3 | trotted | trot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 trotted | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 path | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 path | det |
| 7 | gravel | gravel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 path | compound |
| 8 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trotted | obl |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 path | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sat | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sat | cc |
| 14 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 trotted | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 sat | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 think | mark |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sat | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trotted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trot off | past | snake | the gravel path near the house | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to path=Destination | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | snake not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | snake not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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