The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 51
His eyes and the end of his restless nose were pink.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: be
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 (eyes), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pink | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 end | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 end | det |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eyes | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 nose | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 nose | nmod:poss |
| 8 | restless | restless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 nose | amod |
| 9 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | nmod |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 pink | cop |
| 11 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 pink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Tikki's eyes and the end of Tikki's restless nose | pink property | tree rules |
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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