The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 63
It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity.
Who acts: Englishman · What happens: be, frighten, eat up · To what, where: hardest thing, world, mongoose, Tikki, nose
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 (Englishman), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 world | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thing | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 frighten | mark |
| 10 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thing | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mongoose | det |
| 12 | mongoose | mongoose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 frighten | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eaten | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 eaten | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 eaten | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 eaten | aux:pass |
| 17 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 thing | parataxis |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 eaten | compound:prt |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 nose | case |
| 20 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eaten | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 tail | case |
| 22 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eaten | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 curiosity | case |
| 24 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tail | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Englishman | the hardest thing | the world | tree rules | |||
| 2 | frighten | to-infinitive | Englishman not said here | a mongoose | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mongoose=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | eat up | present · passive | Tikki | nose | to tail with curiosity | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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