The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 52
He could scratch himself anywhere he pleased with any leg, front or back, that he chose to use.
Who acts: Tikki · What happens: scratch, choose, use · To what, where: Tikki
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), 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 | 3 scratch | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 scratch | aux |
| 3 | scratch | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 scratch | obj |
| 5 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 pleased | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pleased | nsubj |
| 7 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 scratch | ccomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 leg | case |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 leg | det |
| 10 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pleased | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 front | punct |
| 12 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leg | nmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 back | cc |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 leg | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 chose | punct |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 chose | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 chose | nsubj |
| 18 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scratch | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 use | mark |
| 20 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 chose | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scratch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch | could | Tikki | Tikki | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 2 | choose | past | Tikki | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | use | to-infinitive | Tikki not said here | vn eat-39.1 «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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