The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 61
So they wrapped him in cotton wool, and warmed him over a little fire, and he opened his eyes and sneezed.
Who acts: men, Tikki · What happens: wrap, warm, open, sneeze · To what, where: Tikki, cotton wool, little fire, eyes
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 (men, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 wrapped | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wrapped | nsubj |
| 3 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wrapped | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 wool | case |
| 6 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wool | compound |
| 7 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrapped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 warmed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 warmed | cc |
| 10 | warmed | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrapped | parataxis |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 warmed | obj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 fire | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fire | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fire | amod |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 warmed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 opened | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 opened | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 opened | nsubj |
| 19 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrapped | parataxis |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 opened | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sneezed | cc |
| 23 | sneezed | sneeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 opened | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap | past | men = man | Tikki | cotton wool | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in wool=Destination | |||
| 2 | warm | past | Tikki | a little fire | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | open | past | Tikki | Tikki's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sneeze | past | Tikki not said here | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «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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