The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 90
If a snake came into the nursery now--”
Who acts: snake · What happens: come · To what, where: nursery
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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 snake | det |
| 3 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 nursery | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 nursery | det |
| 7 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a snake | the nursery | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into nursery=Initial_Location |
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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